State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, said in 2019 that women should be charged with murder if they violated his proposed abortion ban.
Under his proposed legislation, Mastriano was asked whether a woman who decided to get an abortion at 10 weeks gestation would be charged with murder.
Asked if he was saying yes, they should be charged with murder, Mastriano responded: "Yes, I am."
After the Supreme Court decision in June overturning Roe v. Wade, the future of abortion rights has played prominently on the campaign trail.
At last week's Pennsylvania March for Life, Mastriano called the battle over abortion rights "the single most important issue, I think, in our lifetime."