Oklahoma Gov Candidate: God Wanted My Mother To Be Raped Because Life Actually Begins Before Conception

Newsweek reports:

Mark Sherwood, an alternative medicine practitioner and former police officer, said on Thursday that he hopes to push a total abortion ban through the Oklahoma state legislature if he is elected. Sherwood, who was adopted, told Real America’s Voice host David Brody on a Thursday segment for The Water Cooler that his birth mother had likely been raped before giving birth to him.

He suggested that abortion should be banned even for pregnancies that begin under the most “heinous” of circumstances, before citing a Bible verse to explain his belief that life begins “before” pregnancy. “Everybody has a purpose,” he continued. “Jeremiah 1:5: ‘I knew you before you were created in the womb.’ So, I believe life begins in God before it begins at conception.”

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