Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who is running for his old job against his successor, Democratic incumbent Janet Mills, answered questions for the first time Tuesday about the Supreme Court decision revoking a constitutional right to abortion. His comments occurred during his visit to a construction site where he accepted the endorsement of Maine Associated Builders and Contractors, which represents 182 small businesses with thousands of workers.“I don’t think a governor should take a position on a social issue,” LePage in response to the first question about the Court’s ruling, saying his campaign’s focus is on economic issues like inflation and jobs.WMTW asked the Republican candidate if he'd approve a ban on taxpayer-funded abortions through MaineCare, the state’s version of Medicaid health insurance for low-income residents.In 2019, Gov. Janet Mills required MaineCare and state-regulated private insurance plans to pay for abortion care, signing a bill passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature.A Republican-sponsored bill in the last legislative session sought to stop the funding but failed to pass.LePage said he is unsure if he would sign such a bill if it reached him at the governor’s desk."I don't know,” he said, “You'll have to look in the bill."LePage was asked if he'd support any ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, now in effect in Texas, or after 15 weeks, as currently in effect in Mississippi, the law the Supreme Court upheld.LePage said, "I don't know. I would have to look at the science. I will tell you this. I am absolutely certain that I don't like late-term abortions or killing a viable baby just before birth.”Current Maine law protects the right to abortion only up to viability, so he stated opposition to something already illegal.LePage was asked if he would support rolling back the timeline for legal abortion in Maine?"I don't know," he said. "I don't have an opinion."RELATED: LePage said, as he has before, that he would spend taxpayer funds to support adoption services and pregnant women carrying their babies to term for adoption.LePage said, "If we're going to kill little fetuses and babies, then we've got to try to keep them alive as well."LePage went on say that he had “no agenda” on abortion."In the next four years, it's going to be the economy, it's going to be fuel, it's going to be energy, it's going to be policing, it's going to be children and fixing our health care system. I don't have time for abortion,” LePage told reporters. "There's so much that needs to be done that, to me, is critical for all Mainers. Abortion affects few Mainers."Maine Democrats said Tuesday that while Mills has expanded reproductive rights, LePage doesn't care about them and was deflecting attention from his previously articulated anti-abortion views.“Paul LePage could not make it any more obvious that he does not care about the reproductive freedoms of Maine people,” Maine Democratic Party Vice-Chair Bev Uhlenhake said in a written statement. “When he was governor, he fought against abortion rights in our state. Now with Roe overturned and a procession of abortion opponents behind him, we know he won’t turn down the chance to ban abortion. We cannot let someone so wildly out of touch with our state on reproductive rights back in the Blaine House.”LePage described the backing of Maine ABC as the first major endorsement of his 2022 campaign, as it was in 2010 and 2014.“I value this endorsement because these employers understand how difficult it is to sign the front of a check,” LePage said. “The last four years have not been kind to Maine business — more regulations, burdensome mandates.”Supporter Bob Grondin, owner of R.J. Grondin & Sons, said inflation was taking a toll on his construction business.Grondin said, “You get a quote for some materials on a job, nobody will hold that price, a lot of times, even for hours, if you don’t commit.”Stacey Morrison, owner of Ganneston Construction, said Maine voters could make an “apples to apples” comparison in November.“Two governors, two different ways of governing. One has bred a culture of success, achievement and service, the other a culture of blame-shifting, bureaucracy, and bloated budgets,” Ganneston said. “For both businesses and families across our state, we need Paul LePage back in the Blaine House for four more years.”