A Republican candidate for Idaho’s lieutenant governor said women who get an abortion should receive the death penalty if abortion becomes illegal in the state.
State Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, said at a candidate forum hosted by the Christian podcast CrossPolitic that women getting an abortion should be punished.
Moderators asked him if he supported including the death penalty as a possible punishment, and Nonini nodded in response, according to the Associated Press.
His two challengers, GOP businesswoman Janice McGeachin and former Republican Party Chairman Steve Yates, both stopped short of supporting charging women with first-degree murder if they get an abortion, the report said.
However, both agreed with Nonini that abortion is murder.
