North Carolina GOP candidate Mark Robinson, a harsh abortion critic, says his wife once had the procedure in new ad
The Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina is out with a new TV ad where he and his wife tell viewers that she had an abortion 30 years ago.
The Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina is out with a new TV ad where he and his wife tell viewers that she had an abortion 30 years ago.
In the ad, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his wife talk directly to the camera, revealing few details about the procedure beyond his telling viewers, "Thirty years ago, my wife and I made a very difficult decision. We had an abortion."
It's not the first time Robinson has admitted that he paid for his then-girlfriend, now his wife, to have an abortion. He first mentioned the abortion on Facebook in 2012, according to WRAL.
Later in the ad, Robinson says he agrees with the current abortion restrictions in North Carolina, which limit the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother, and says "that's why I stand by our current law."
But the ad comes as news organizations and Democratic groups in the state have for months unearthed controversial comments Robinson has made about abortion, including in a Facebook Live stream in 2019, where he said, “Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers ... It is about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down.”
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