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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His name is Mark Sherwood. “I believe life begins in God before it begins at conception,” he says, claiming every life is pre-planned by God even those that begin w/ rape, as he says his did. He’s saying–& I’m not being mean, this is his claim–that God wanted his mother raped.
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) May 26, 2022
Mark Sherwood, a Republican candidate for governor in Oklahoma, claimed that life begins “before” conception and that there should be “no exceptions” for abortions in the case of rape, incest or life of the mother. He wants more “punishment” for abortions. pic.twitter.com/6KVQpvYVR1
— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) May 26, 2022