FILE – North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 in Raleigh, N.C. Robinson, a recent rising force in North Carolina Republican politics and a vocal abortion opponent, confirmed on Thursday, March 24, 2022, that he and his future wife decided to get an abortion more than 30 years ago. Robinson and his wife, Yolanda, appeared in a video to address a social media post that the lieutenant governor said he wrote 10 years ago — years before entering politics — but had gained attention this week.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a recent rising force in North Carolina Republican politics and a vocal abortion opponent, confirmed Thursday that he and his future wife decided to get an abortion more than 30 years ago.
Robinson and his wife, Yolanda, appeared in a video to address a social media post the lieutenant governor said he wrote 10 years ago — years before entering politics — but had gained attention this week.
“Before we were married and before we had kids. We had an abortion,” Robinson says in the video. “It was the hardest decision we have ever made and sadly, we made the wrong one.”
Any elected official talking about such a personal event is unusual. Robinson, who was elected the state’s first Black lieutenant governor in 2020, has spoken out ardently against abortion.
In the video, Robinson cited a “resurfaced” Facebook post “where I referenced paying for an abortion.”
Yolanda Robinson does not speak in the 76-second video, but her husband says the decision to have the abortion “has been with us ever since.”
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