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Martin Pengelly in New York

Top Republican urged murder charges for women who defied abortion ban

Doug Mastriano earlier this month. NBC News reported the remark on Tuesday. Mastriano did not immediately comment.
Doug Mastriano this month. NBC News reported the remark on Tuesday. Mastriano did not immediately comment. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Asked in 2019 if he was saying women should be charged with murder for violating an abortion ban he proposed, Doug Mastriano, now the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, said: “Yes, I am.”

Mastriano was talking to WITF, a radio station, about a bill he sponsored as a state senator.

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