President Trump slammed Democrats as the party of “late-term abortions” in a Thursday morning tweet.
“Democrats are becoming the Party of late-term abortion, high taxes, Open Borders and Crime!” Trump wrote.
The tweet comes on the heels of late-term abortion bills, allowing parents to terminate living fetuses far beyond 20 weeks and in some cases up to 40 weeks.
Fetuses can in cases survive outside the womb after 20-22 weeks.
CNN reported that Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam is facing backlash after he voiced his support for a state measure that would significantly loosen restrictions on late-term abortions.
“[Third trimester abortions are] done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s nonviable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen,” Northam, a pediatric neurosurgeon, told Washington radio station WTOP. “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.”
Northam claims he’s devoted his life to “caring” for children.
From Fox News
The president’s tweet comes amid a debate over bills like Virginia’s The Repeal Act, which would repeal restrictions on third-trimester abortions. One of the sponsors, Democratic Del. Kathy Tran, sparked outrage earlier this week when she was asked at a hearing if a woman about to give birth and dilating could still request an abortion.
“My bill would allow that, yes,” she said of the bill, which was tabled in committee.
But then Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, a former pediatric neurologist, sparked a new controversy when he appeared on WTOP and was asked about Tran’s comments. He said he couldn’t speak for the delegate, but said that third-trimester abortions are done with “the consent of obviously the mother, with consent of the physician, multiple physicians by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities or there may be a fetus that’s not viable.”
“So in this particular example, 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 family desired, and then a discussion would ensure between the physicians and the mother,” he said.
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., called Northam’s comments “morally repugnant.”
“In just a few years pro-abortion zealots went from ‘safe, legal, and rare’ to ‘keep the newborns comfortable while the doctor debates infanticide.’ I don’t care what party you’re from — if you can’t say that it’s wrong to leave babies to die after birth, get the hell out of public office,” Sasse told the National Review.
Northam defended his remarks, saying: “I have devoted my life to caring for children and insinuation otherwise is shameful and disgusting.”
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