Debate moderator criticizes Trump’s false claim that babies are aborted after birth

Former President Donald Trump repeated the well-known false claim on the debate stage Tuesday night that some states allow abortions even after a child is born – a claim that was immediately refuted by moderator Linsey Davis.

“(Democrats) have ninth-month abortions,” the former president falsely claimed.

Trump again claimed that the former governor of West Virginia said the state would “decide what happens to the baby” after the birth.

“In other words, we are going to execute the baby,” Trump claimed.

Davis corrected the former president’s statement, saying, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after birth.”

Trump’s claim has been made by anti-abortion activists before. His statement is based on a quote taken out of context from former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam in 2019.

Northam gave a hypothetical example of what could happen if a pregnant woman whose fetus is not viable requested an abortion during labor.

Abortion opponents use the so-called “abortion after birth” concept to portray lax abortion laws as radical. But there is no state in which a baby can be legally killed after birth.

Harris reiterated to the former president that his claim was false and “an insult to the women of America.”

The vice president, who supports reproductive freedom, blamed Trump for the restrictive abortion laws in the USA and told harrowing stories of women who had suffered physical and emotional pain as a result.

At the Democratic election party, spectators cheered Harris’ answer that the former president would end Roe v. Wadeaccordingly The IndependentWashington bureau chief Eric Garcia.

Trump also praised the six conservative Supreme Court justices for repealing roe and said that abortion laws had rightly been returned to the hands of the states.

However, when asked whether he would support a nationwide ban on abortion, Trump did not give a clear answer.

The former president also admitted that he had not spoken to his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, about whether he would oppose a federal abortion ban; Vance had claimed that Trump would oppose such a law.