Pat Robertson, a televangelist well-known for his staunch conservative views, on Wednesday said Alabama had gone 'too far' after its legislature passed a bill effectively banning abortion.
Pat Robertson on Wednesday said a law that passed in Alabama's legislature effectively banning abortion goes"too far."Conservative televangelist Pat Robertson, who's anti-gay and anti-abortion, said a law that passed in Alabama effectively banning abortion goes"too far."
The abortion bill that passed in Alabama's legislature on Tuesday night makes it a felony for doctors to perform an abortion — punishable by up to 99 years in prison — and bans abortion in cases of rape and incest.
"I think Alabama has gone too far," Robertson, who's anti-abortion, said in a Wednesday appearance on the"It's an extreme law, and they want to challenge Roe vs. Wade, but my humble view is that this is not the case we want to bring to the Supreme Court because I think this one will lose," Robertson added.
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