New Hampshire Republican Backed Abortion Panels

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.”