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
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Content: Speaking at a rally in El Paso, he said that Northam “stated that he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world ... then talk to the mother and talk to the father and then execute the baby.” We rated this claim False. 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.