Title: Fact-check: Do Democrats support abortion up until (and after) birth? - News - Austin American-Statesman - Austin, TX
Headings: Fact-check: Do Democrats support abortion up until (and after) birth?
Fact-check: Do Democrats support abortion up until (and after) birth?
Trump claims
Sources
Virginia legislation
Northam’s comments
Our Ruling
Sign up for daily e-mail
Wake up to the day’s top news, delivered to your inbox

Content: Harvard Medical School defines abortion as “the removal of pregnancy tissue, products of conception or the fetus and placenta (afterbirth) from the uterus.” Our Ruling
Cruz said Democrats support “abortion up until the moment of birth and even, horrifically, after that.” Cruz’s remark hinged on an inaccurate characterization of legislation considered in Virginia’s House of Delegates in 2019 and comments made by the state’s Democratic governor at the same time. State law in Virginia allows doctors to perform abortions up until the moment of birth, but only in cases when three physicians certify that a continued pregnancy is likely to result in the death of the woman. The author of the bill clarified earlier remarks to say it would not allow an abortion to be performed on a woman during a live birth. PolitiFact has rated multiple statements making similar claims about Democrats supporting the execution of children False. We rate this claim False. Sign up for daily e-mail
Wake up to the day’s top news, delivered to your inbox