Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson changes campaign website to remove references to abortion, other top issues

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has seemingly relaunched his campaign website and, in the process, removed all references to some of his top issues like abortion, guns, voter ID and immigration.

A short NBC News article posted Wednesday evening first brought attention to the changes.

Using the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine, the “Issues” section of Robinson’s website used to include these subsections:

• 2nd Amendment
• Pro-Life
• Education
• Jobs
• Immigration
• Veterans
• Voter ID
• Economy

As of the time of this writing, the only issues Robinson features on his campaign site now are “growing our economy,” “improving our education system,” “increasing public safety” and “expanding veterans care.”

Robinson has consistently faced questions and criticism about his views and statements regarding abortion, including at a recent fundraiser when a donor asked him to clarify what he meant by his comment that women get abortions because they weren’t “responsible enough to keep [their] skirt down” and would rather “kill a child” than take care of them. In the video, Robinson dodged the question by complaining that his detractors took his comment out of context by only focusing on that one line out of the entire conversation it came from. He didn’t offer any clarification about the comment, though.

His website’s “Pro-Life” section used to claim that “the radical left believes … low income families should abort their babies.”

When reached by NBC News for comment, Robinson’s campaign avoided questions about the website and said, “The legislature has already spoken on this issue.”

Robinson has previously called abortion “murder,” said that once a woman becomes pregnant “it’s not [her] body anymore,” said “for me, there is no compromise on abortion,” and said he would sign “a bill right now that says you can’t get an abortion in North Carolina for any reason.”

North Carolina and Virginia are the only two southern states where abortion is still legal after six weeks of pregnancy. North Carolina bans abortion at 12 weeks and Virginia bans the procedure at the start of the third trimester.

Robinson’s Democratic gubernatorial opponent, Attorney General Josh Stein, fully supports reproductive rights and in his role as AG has joined the legal fight to protect access to the abortion medication mifepristone and has defended access to abortion and women’s reproductive freedoms.