AR Gov Shrugs Off 13 Year-Olds Having Rape Babies

The Independent reports:

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson defended his state’s controversial law that makes all abortions illegal in all cases except to save the life of the patient in a medical emergency on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning.

Asked by host Chuck Todd whether he is comfortable if a “13 year old in Arkansas is raped by a relative, that 13 year old cannot get an abortion,” the governor said he would “prefer a different outcome than that.”

“That’s not the debate today in Arkansas. It might be in the future,” he said, adding that the law currently bans abortions with only one exception.

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Chuck Todd: This decision now will force a woman to carry a pregnancy that they perhaps didn’t want to do. Does that at all make you uncomfortable, that you’re forcing somebody to do something they don’t want to do?

Hutchinson: Well, no. I think it’s a very appropriate ruling. pic.twitter.com/AKv9u9nUDB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2022

WATCH: @RepAOC (D-N.Y.) responds to Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) and Arkansas’ abortion ban.

“This decision and this policy will kill people no matter what their spin and what their talking points are.” pic.twitter.com/ewGWtOcg7h

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) June 26, 2022