Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders says there should be no restrictions on abortion, including those performed because of the fetus's gender.

"Do you believe there should be any restrictions on abortion in law?" Chuck Todd asked Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." When Sanders said he didn't, the host got more specific, asking if the Vermont senator was "at all concerned" about people getting abortions because they were unhappy about the sex of the fetus.

“I wouldn’t use a restriction. That’s an issue that society has got to deal with, and it is of concern,” Sanders said.

Todd asked, "How would you deal with that and the law?"

“I don’t know how at this particular point I would deal with it,” Sanders responded. “That’s an issue we really have got to deal with.”

In response to Alabama passing the strictest abortion ban in the nation, including in instances of rape and incest, Sanders said the decision to terminate a pregnancy should be between a woman and her physician.

“I think many of what people are doing, sadly, is creating a political issue out of a medical issue,” he said. “So the decision about women should be able to control their own body, and those decisions are made by a doctor and the woman.”

Sanders also vowed to nominate Supreme Court justices who would defend the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.