South Dakota Senator John Thune says Democrats are using issue of abortion "to distract"

n the wake of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that could lead to overturning the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, South Dakota Senator John Thune told "CBS Mornings" that he believes the issue needs to be at the hands of the people and their elected officials. 

"The question for a lot of people is going to be, is it human life, and what does that mean? I think what you're going to see is state legislatures... are going to have to find political consensus, and some states are probably going to define it differently," Thune said. 

The Republican senator voted against a Democratic-led bill this week to protect abortion access on the federal level.