'New low': Internet slams Lindsey Graham for false claim about GOP and fertility clinics

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Saturday made a claim on social media about Republicans and fertility clinics, but it didn't go unanswered.

Graham, who has recently been accused of flip-flopping for former president Donald Trump when it comes to aid to Ukraine, might be making a similar move when it comes to controversial fertility treatments that some Republicans have actively opposed for years. The shift follows actions taken by the Alabama Supreme Court, which concluded that embryos used in certain treatments are actually humans, which could open up potential parents and medical professionals to serious litigation.

Graham Saturday pointed to a comment by Hillary Clinton, who recently warned that the GOP would try to take away birth control next.

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"The last thing Republicans will do is shut down fertility clinics and limit access to legal birth control," he wrote. "[Clinton], your latest attacks are BS and they are not going to work."

Graham also included a video in which he reiterates those same positions on Fox News.

Columnist Molly Jong-Fast had a simple response: "Ummm," she wrote. She also included screenshots of multiple elected Republicans coming out in favor of fertility clinics despite having voted for legislation that would essentially ban the medical practice entirely as we know it.

Progressive journalist Brian Tyler Cohen posted about Graham's claim, too, saying, "Republicans just shut down several IVF clinics in Alabama after the 100% Republican Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are children."

Legal scholar Norman Ornstein took notice of that post, adding that "Lindsey keeps sinking to a new low."

Investigative journalist Victoria Brownworth was stunned by Graham's latest remarks.

"Is Lindsey Graham in a news blackout? Alabama just did this," she wrote on social media Saturday.