At least 10 of the likeliest Republican candidates for president support legislation banning most abortions in pregnancies beyond 20 weeks, along the lines of a bill abruptly pulled from an anticipated vote in the House of Representatives.

Among them are Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former governors Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Jeb Bush of Florida, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and three sitting senators — Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida.

Some of the White House hopefuls tweeted their thoughts during yesterday’s 42nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., a rally and procession to the Supreme Court marking the anniversary of the justices’ 1973 ruling legalizing abortion.

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., is the chief sponsor of the pulled bill, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, named after scientific research that shows babies in the womb can experience pain as early as five months.

In 2013, the House passed the bill — which provides exceptions to save the mother’s life and for reported cases of rape or incest  — but Senate Democrats bottled it up in committee.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is the main sponsor of a companion fetal pain bill in the Senate with the same title, which he hopes will advance with “bipartisan support” now that Republicans hold the Senate majority. Graham is pondering his own run for the presidency.

Romney, who expressed renewed interest in a third try for the White House only two weeks ago, wrote a commentary in support of such legislation as part of his 2012 campaign.

Carly Fiorina, a conservative entrepreneur and business executive from California who is thinking about running, told The Daily Signal on Tuesday that the five-month mark for new abortion limits could provide “common ground” for pro-life and pro-choice activists.

“I think we have an opportunity to find some common ground around the five months, which will allow us to continue to make progress,” Fiorina said after a pro-life event at The Heritage Foundation, adding:

So I hope we will seize that moment for common ground, not because we are giving up on everything else but because as soon as we can take that common ground, then I think it becomes more difficult for people to avoid some of these profound questions.

Last year, Graham began to line up his party’s White House hopefuls in support of the bill.

By September, the South Carolina Republican had commitments from Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in addition to Bush, Jindal, Cruz, Paul, Rubio and Santorum.

CBN’s David Brody reported that Graham also was counting on Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose last day in office was Tuesday and who signed a similar measure in his state, and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who supported the House bill but recently took himself out of the race for president.

A spokesman for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who is exploring a run for the White House, told The Daily Signal that he too supports such legislation.

“If you’re telling parents to sing to the baby because they understand your voice, really, should we be aborting a child at [this] stage of the pregnancy?” Graham told CBN. “If you don’t get this, then you’re the extremist.”

Graham’s staff today declined to provide The Daily Signal with an updated list of supporters of the bill among other potential Republican candidates for president.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, another Republican interested in making a White House run, was among those retweeting this message yesterday from the March for Life’s official Twitter account:

Santorum, who attended the March for Life, tweeted portraits throughout the day of himself, his wife and their six children holding signs with pro-life messages. He urged participants to “take a few minutes” to visit the offices of their senators and representatives.

Himself the father of a young daughter with special needs, Santorum told a reporter for EWTN that he understands what it’s like to hear a physician suggest the abortion of an unborn child who is “not what is seen as normal.”

Crisis pregnancy centers across the nation are “changing hearts and minds” and saving hundreds of thousands of lives as a vital part of the pro-life movement, Santorum said.

“They are that voice and reaching out of God’s love to women in crisis and to families, not just to the babies.”