As expected in the debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, ABC News botched a fact check to try and cover for Harris and the Democratic Party’s radicalism.
ABC News host Linsey Davis inserted herself into the debate on the question of abortion, offering a “fact check” of Trump’s comments about the Democratic Party supporting no protections for babies born alive after abortions.
“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” she said matter-of-factly.
The problem is that Davis did not get her facts right. Trump referenced during his answer the infamous (and undercovered by liberal media) comments by former Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA), who said the following about babies born alive after surviving an abortion: “If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
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Davis evidently was not aware of this. She also evidently was not aware congressional Democrats voted against a bill that would provide protections for babies born alive after abortions. Davis was also evidently unaware that Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Harris’s running mate, helped repeal the state’s law that required physicians to try to save the life of a baby born during an abortion, meaning that abortionists can just let the baby die even if it has already been born. To be specific, Walz’s law explicitly deleted the former requirement that doctors try to “preserve the life and health” of infants born alive. As Northam said, “a discussion would ensue” about whether that baby’s life is worth saving.
This is a relatively simple fact to check. Davis jumped in not to “fact check” but to make a political point, which is part of why the network made abortion (Harris’s strongest issue) the second debate topic. This is the network putting its finger on the scale in the 2024 election, which, while expected, is still partisan politicking thinly disguised as “fact-checking.”