Sununu Slams ‘No Exception’ Abortion Ban Backed by Fellow GOP Gov. Noem

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu on Sunday criticized his fellow GOP Governor Kristi Noem over her stance on abortion bans.

Throughout an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper requested the governor: “What’s your response while you hear somebody like South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem, who stated…that her state’s legislation would make no exception for a younger woman who received pregnant after being raped?”

“I do not agree with that in any respect. I simply do not,” Sununu responded. “Governor Noem and the parents of South Dakota need to reconcile that.”

His remarks come after Noem final week spoke about her stance on exempting rape victims from South Dakota’s abortion ban after studying {that a} 10-year-old woman, who was raped, was denied an abortion in Ohio after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark choice that allowed girls to have abortions nationwide.

Noem was requested on State of The Union whether or not or not abortion can be banned if the identical state of affairs occurred to a baby in her state. Nonetheless, as an alternative of answering the query, she stated that “no person’s speaking in regards to the pervert, horrible and deranged person who raped a 10-year-old.”

She additionally held her stance late final month when requested on CBS’ Face the Nation about contemplating an abortion ban exception to rape and incest instances in her state. South Dakota bans all abortions besides when the mom’s life is in danger.

In the meantime, Sununu stated Sunday that this isn’t the “rule of legislation” in New Hampshire the place abortions are banned after 24 weeks of being pregnant, and ultrasounds are required earlier than the process, in keeping with the Related Press. The state additionally gives an abortion ban exemption to instances the place the fetus is recognized with “abnormalities incompatible with life.”

“We’ll hold it accessible, we will hold it accessible and ensure that people have that selection,” Sununu stated Sunday, who beforehand stated that he’s open to signing a legislation codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade in his state, in keeping with NBC Boston.

“I am a pro-choice governor and so long as I’m governor, we’re going to stay a pro-choice state,” he stated in Might, in keeping with native information station WMUR.

In the meantime, Tapper requested Sununu whether or not he’s involved that members of the Republican Occasion are “overreaching” as they crack down on reproductive rights in GOP-controlled states by imposing a full abortion ban and presumably limiting entry to contraceptives.

“It is a state difficulty now. And each state goes to actually attempt to discover their path,” he responded. “For a very long time, states had that backdrop of Roe v. Wade, that safety, if you’ll, of not the total abortion bans. However some states are going to have some very powerful discussions coming ahead, unquestionably.”

There are 13 states with so-called “set off legal guidelines” that make abortions unlawful or restricted as a consequence of pre-Roe provisions of their statute books. South Dakota and Missouri had been among the many first states to right away enact their legal guidelines following the overturn of Roe.

The GOP governor confirmed that nothing is altering in New Hampshire, including that the “entry that ladies needed to abortion right now is similar because it was two months in the past,” and added that “we’re not altering something. Republican management right here on this state has acknowledged as such.”