NEWS PROVIDED BY
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
June 28, 2024

NEW YORK, June 28, 2024 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Bill Donohue, President, Catholic League:

The "fact checkers" at the Associated Press, CNN, the Washington Post and WCBS radio (NY) are claiming that former president Donald Trump was wrong to say in the debate that not only do late-term abortions and partial-birth abortions still occur, babies are being killed after an abortion, and that the Democrats support it. They are wrong. Trump is right. Here are some facts they overlook.

• 1977: Dr. C. Everett Koop, later U.S. Surgeon General, told the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Well, you know that infanticide is being practiced right now in this country…I am concerned that there is no outcry…I am concerned about this because when the first 273,000 German aged, infirm, and retarded were killed in gas chambers there was no outcry from that medical profession either, and it was not far from there to Auschwitz." He titled his speech, "The Slide to Auschwitz."
   
• 1995: Partial-birth abortionist Dr. George Tiller said, "We have some experience with late terminations; about 10,000 patients between 24 and 36 weeks and something like 800 fetal anomalies between 26 and 36 weeks in the past 5 years."
   
• 1997: Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, admitted on national TV that he "lied through [his] teeth" when he "just went out there and spouted the party line" about how rare partial-birth abortions are.
   
• 2001-2003: Illinois State Senator Barack Obama opposed bills that would have mandated that a child born alive as a result of a botched abortion be given medical care.
  2003: The U.S. Senate voted 64-33 to outlaw partial-birth abortion. Of the 33, 29 were Democrats, 3 were Republican, and 1 was an Independent.
   
• 2007: Senator Joe Biden, who voted for the ban on partial-birth abortion in 2003, changed his mind and said the ban on killing a baby who is 80 percent born is "paternalistic."
   
• 2019: The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute admits that at least 12,000 late-term abortions take place annually in the U.S.
   
• 2019: New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs a bill that removes legal penalties to any medical staff personnel who intentionally allow a child born as a result of a botched abortion to die.
   
• 2019: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said that if a mother sought to abort her baby, but the baby was born anyway, "the infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and her family decide, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother." He added that the baby would be "kept comfortable" before they put him down or let him die.
   
• 2019: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock vetoed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, a law that would have required children born alive who survived an abortion to be treated like any other human being.
   
• 2019: The Born-Alive Infant Abortion Survivors Protection Act was blocked by Senate Democrats Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren; all were presidential candidates.
   
• 2019: The Washington Post conceded that at least 10,000 late-term abortions take place each year.
   
• 2023: All but two congressional Democrats voted to kill the Born Alive-Infant Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

It's time the media stopped lying and covering up for those who support late-term abortions, partial-birth abortions and infanticide.

SOURCE Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

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