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Senator Lindsey Graham proposed legislation on Tuesday for a nationwide 15-week abortion ban, a politically risky strategy as a backlash grows to the US supreme court ruling earlier this summer overturning federal protections for the procedure.

Could Graham's legislation pass? Even if Republicans seize control of the Senate chamber in November, Graham's bill is unlikely to pass because the current Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has indicated he would be unwilling to lift the filibuster - a procedure that requires a bill to win the support of 60 senators - for the abortion issue.

Doesn't Louisiana's abortion ban contain a general exception for fetuses that cannot survive outside their mothers' wombs? Yes and the law's author - state senator Katrina Jackson - has insisted that Davis could have legally obtained an abortion without having to go across the country.

So why wasn't Davis allowed one? Acrania is not explicitly included in the list of conditions for exemption so officials at the hospital where Davis had her ultrasound refused to provide an abortion for her, apparently fearing that they could be exposed to prison time, fines and forfeiture of their licenses to practice if they performed the procedure.