Republican effort at diversity and GOP nominee for North Carolina Governor Mark Robinson reportedly said at a campaign event that he would support a “zero” week abortion ban, NBC News reports.
Asked if he supported the state’s current 12-week abortion ban, Robinson responded on a recording of a September 3rd event, “That 12 weeks, exceptions for rape and incest … I’m not going to say it’s reasonable. But my faith allows me to live with that, because that’s where the consensus is. Do I want to continue to lower it? You better know it. I would love to get down to six weeks. And I’d like to get down to zero. I would like to push it back as far as we could and eliminate as many abortions as we can.”
Robinson then went on to push a “zero week” ban as a goal of the anti-choice movement. “We can’t do it all at once. The Democrats started off with Roe v. Wade, then moved to ‘safe, legal, and rare.’ Then they got to where? Nine months in the womb. They did that over 50 years. … And we can do it.”