Robert Burns (R) won his congressional primary in New Hampshire this week saying that while he was opposed to abortion, he would accept an abortion ban after a pregnancy of 15 weeks, the HuffPost reports.
But in 2018, Burns told a television show he was “100% pro-life from conception.”
As for exceptions when the life of the mother was at risk, Burns waffled: “The life of the – well, the problem is, when we start using ‘life of the mother’ ― you know, ‘life of the mother’ absolutely has to mean – and I’ve talked about this before – you need a panel to look at it. Not because like, ‘my life is going to change’ or ‘psychologically, I can’t handle that.’ Because this is what they try to put in there… Absolutely, there’s a few cases where, in fact, it is life or death: a woman comes down with cancer and she can’t get chemotherapy without having an abortion, or what have you. In those cases, I believe we would need a panel in this sort of situation.”
