MINNESOTA — Minnesota Republican lieutenant governor candidate Matt Birk appeared to double down Wednesday on controversial comments he made about abortion and women on the day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Speaking at the National Right to Life conference in Georgia last month, Birk said American culture "loudly but also stealthily promotes abortion" by "telling women they should look a certain way, they should have careers." Birk said abortion rights activists who oppose bans that do not have exceptions for victims of rape or incest "always want to go to the rape card."
An abortion, Birk said, is "not going to heal the wounds of that."
