Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson says a national abortion ban floated by McConnell is 'inconsistent with what we've been fighting for'

The national abortion ban that Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnell of Kentucky suggested during a recent interview is inconsistent with what we have been fighting for, said Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Sunday.

McConnell in a recent interview with USA Today said that a national abortion ban is possible and that such a policy would be worthy of debate after a leaked Supreme Court opinion signaled the prospect of a reversal of the Wade decision.

During a separate interview on ABC's This Week, Hutchinson wouldn't get behind such a far-reaching presidential bid.

He told Martha that it was inconsistent with what they had been fighting for for four decades.

There are some constitutional issues of a national standard as well as to what is the authority of the Constitution to enacted that, if you look at a constitutional or a national standard that goes against that thrust of the states having prerogative.

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Hutchinson said that states making their own decisions about abortion make sense.

He said that if the court reverses the decision, it will return the decision to the states. There are a lot of concerns on the compassion side.

The country has been shocked by the revelation that the draft opinion was published last Monday. The leak has made it more difficult for Democratic congressional leaders and left-leaning organizations who want to codify abortion into law.

The opinion is not final. Many conservatives have chosen to blast the leak of the document while Democrats have sought to rally their voters around the issue and frame the potential Supreme Court decision to overturn the 1973 decision as extreme.