North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), who speaks out against abortion admitted in a Facebook post that he paid for the mother of his unborn child to get an abortion in 1989.
Robinson made the admission in a 2012 Facebook post that a Twitter user posted a screenshot of on Tuesday.
“How can so many people ‘Praise God’ with their mouths then vote for a man who supports gay marriage and abortion with their hands,” Robinson wrote, referring to then-President Barack Obama. “I’m not saying abortion is wrong cause I said so it’s wrong cause God says so. It’s wrong when others do it and it was wrong when I paid for it to be done to my unborn child in 1989.”
Robinson mentioned the abortion again in a separate post while responding to a critic, according to Axios.
“I saw your comment on my other post and I intend to keep pointing those fingers at me first,” Robinson wrote. “Abortion is wrong. It’s wrong when others do it and it was wrong when I (YES I) paid to have MY own child aborted in 1989.”
Robinson, a hard-line conservative was elected to his current post as lieutenant governor on a pro-life platform and continued to speak at anti-abortion rallies.
“We allow the murder of the most innocent human beings on earth and we do it with impunity,” Robinson said at an anti-abortion rally last January.
In June he specifically called out fathers in a speech at the North Carolina GOP convention saying: “Once you make a baby, it’s not your body anymore—it’s y’all’s body. And, yes, that includes the daddy.”
Robinson is the front-runner among prospective GOP candidates for governor in 2024 in North Carolina. He’s known for making controversial comments especially about the LGBTQ community. He referred to gay and transgender Americans as “filth” in a speech he gave last June at the Asbury Baptist Church, according to Axios.
The North Carolina GOP (NCGOP) declined to comment further on Robinson paying for an abortion claiming it is a “personal matter.”
A spokesperson for the conservative NC Values Coalition telling Axios in an email that “people who have walked through the pain of abortion in some way can be the strongest advocates for the unborn after that experience. We haven’t heard his story yet, but what we do know is today Lt. Governor Robinson is genuine in his commitment to protect life.”
