A House of Commons House Leader of the House of Commons said the abortion law in Alabama was going too far

The Republican Republican said Thursday that Alabama's new law banning almost all abortions went too far.

The representative of California, Kevin McCarthy, leader of the minority in the Chamber of Deputies, told the press that the law, which did not allow exceptions for abortions in cases of rape and incest , "goes further than I think."

McCarthy stated that he believed in "exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother".

McCarthy would not decide if the Supreme Court should overturn the measure, the country's strictest abortion law, if a challenge was to reach the court. Polls reveal widespread opposition to overturning historic Roe v. High Court decision Wade, who could refer the case to the states.

Republicans were struggling to convince suburban women in mid-term elections last year and the controversy over abortion restrictions could prove politically embarrassing.

Republicans have been on the offensive this year in trying to tie congressional Democrats to late abortion measures pushed by some of the party's most liberal forces in state legislatures, such as New York.