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Haley says federal abortion rules 'not realistic' given deadlocked Senate
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Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley said pledging a national ban on abortion is an "unrealistic" goal and promising one would not be "honest."
"For a national standard, I think we have to tell the American people the truth," she said. "In order to do a national standard, you'd have to have a majority of the House, 60 Senate votes, and a president. We haven't had 60 pro-life senators in 100 years," Haley said. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"So the idea that a Republican president could ban all abortions is not being honest with the American people, any more than a Democrat president could ban these pro-life laws in the states. So let's be honest with the American people and say, let's find national consensus," she added.