Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defended the state’s restrictive new abortion law Tuesday, saying it doesn’t force victims of rape to give birth and vowing to “eliminate all rapists.”
Abbott, a Republican, took questions from reporters Tuesday morning after an event at which he signed a sweeping election billinto law. Asked whether the abortion law would force rape victims to give birth, he said: “It doesn’t require that at all, obviously. It provides at least six weeks for a person to get an abortion.”
