Title: PolitiFact | Do Democrats support abortion up until (and after) birth?
Headings: Says Democrats are embracing “abortion up until the moment of birth and even, horrifically, after that.”
Says Democrats are embracing “abortion up until the moment of birth and even, horrifically, after that.”
Do Democrats support abortion up until (and after) birth?
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Content: In a tweet sent days later, Trump said: " The Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth." We rated that claim False. To be clear: killing an infant after birth is illegal, and people on both sides of the abortion debate agree that this act should be illegal. Under federal law, the definitions of a person, human being, child and individual all include infants "born alive at any stage of development." Virginia legislation
This characterization of Democrats as supporters of allowing abortions during and after a live birth surfaced in early 2019, when a subcommittee of the Virginia House of Delegates considered a bill aimed at loosening the state’s abortion laws. In Virginia, a woman can choose to obtain an abortion through the end of the second trimester of pregnancy, up to 28 weeks from her last menstrual period. After that point, abortions are legal if they happen in a hospital and three physicians certify that "the continuation of the pregnancy is likely to result in the death of the woman or substantially and irremediably impair the mental or physical health of the woman." The law also requires physicians to make "measures for life support for the product of such abortion" available if there is "any clearly visible evidence of viability" after an attempted abortion.