Mick Cornett and Kevin Stitt, the two candidates vying for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, say they would sign legislation banning or restricting abortion, even if it would violate abortion rights granted by the U.S. Supreme Court in two major decisions.

Cornett said at a Republican forum in May that he would sign legislation banning all abortions except in the cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Stitt says he would sign every piece of anti-abortion legislation that came to him.

In recent years, the Oklahoma Legislature and Gov. Mary Fallin have approved bills to restrict abortion that have been struck down by courts because of U.S. Supreme Court precedents.

The high court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has sparked a public debate over whether Kennedy's successor will give the court enough anti-abortion justices to reverse or modify its abortion rights precedents in the 1973 decision Roe v. Wade and the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.