Republican Ohio Senate candidate and author J.D. Vance said in an interview Wednesday that women who are the victims of rape and incest should be forced to carry pregnancies to term because the circumstance of the pregnancy was just “inconvenient,” the Daily Beast reports.

In the interview with Curtis Jackson of Spectrum News 1 in Columbus, Vance said that he opposed abortion because it’s not a question of a woman’s right to control her own body, but the real question is if the zygote should have the right to live.

“It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term; it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society,” said Vance. “The question to me is really about the baby. We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but, above all, we want women and young boys in the womb to have a right to life.”

Besides being confused about the difference between conception and birth, Vance apparently has little concern if, to use his words, “little girls in the womb” have a right to life.  A Yale Law School alumnus, Vance falsely claimed that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of upholding a recently passed Texas abortion restriction law (in fact, the Court refused to issue an emergency injunction to bar the law from taking effect) and that the “the fundamental problem with abortion law in this country” is that it is “unsustainable and unstable” even though the presiding law relating to abortion access, Roe v. Wade, was decided by a 7-2 majority in 1973.