Televangelist Pat Robertson is criticizing Alabama’s new anti-abortion measure as “extreme.”
Robertson, who has spoken out against abortion in the past, said there is good intent behind the law but it isn’t ideal for challenging Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide.
“I think Alabama has gone too far,” Robertson said during a Wednesday appearance on The 700 Club. It’s an extreme law, and they want to challenge Roe vs. Wade, but my humble view is that this is not the case we want to bring to the Supreme Court because I think this one will lose.
“The Alabama case, God bless them, they’re trying to do something, but I don’t think that’s the case that I’d want to bring to the Supreme Court,” he added.
Gov. Kay Ivey signed the abortion law Wednesday, one day after it was passed by the State Senate. The law makes it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion or attempt to perform an abortion with no exceptions for victims or rape or incest. Under the terms of the law, the person who performs the abortion would face up to 99 years in prison but the woman receiving the abortion would not be prosecuted.
Proponents of the bill pushed for a clean bill with no amendments in an effort to clear its path to the Supreme Court.