The Republican leader added that individual Republican senators are welcome to differ in how they approach the policy question.
“Views about this issue at the state level vary depending on where you are, and we got elected by states and my members are smart enough to figure out how they want to deal with this very divisive issue based upon the people who actually send them here,” McConnell said.
Abortion policy has become divisive in the United States — and among Republicans — since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which allowed federal and state legislation restricting abortion. More than 20 states imposed restrictions on abortion after the Supreme Court decision and several other states passed pro-abortion laws.
Although most Republicans espouse pro-life views, electoral struggles and referendum losses have led some Republicans to diverge from traditional pro-life policy goals, such as federal restrictions. Other Republicans have tried to advance pro-life bills through Congress, without any success.
The presumptive Republican nominee to challenge President Joe Biden for the White House in November, former president Donald Trump, announced his proposed abortion policies in early April: a state-by-state approach rather than federal restrictions.
“Many states will be different,” Trump said. “Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will have more conservative [policies] than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.”
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