This week, an old interview surfaced of Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano calling for people who have abortions to be prosecuted for murder. The comments came from a 2019 radio interview in which Mastriano was asked whether a "fetal heartbeat" bill he'd sponsored in the state Senate, which would have banned abortion after six weeks, would mean that anyone who obtained abortion after that point in pregnancy should be charged with murder.
"Let's go back to the basic question there," Mastriano replied. "Is that a human being? Is that a little boy or girl? If it is, it deserves equal protection under the law." When the interviewer asked whether that meant he was calling to prosecute abortion as murder, Mastriano removed all doubt, saying, "Yes, I am."
