Politifact is Wrong Again. The Truth is Democrats Support Abortions Up to Birth
I had missed the latest short-of-facts Politifact hit job in which Maria Ramirez Uribe mangled a statement on abortion made by pro-life Sen. JD Vance who is, of course, pro-life former President Donald Trump’s choice to be vice president. Fortunately Ramesh Ponnuru didn’t miss it in his column for National Review Online headlined “Politifact’s Latest Logic- and Evidence-Free ‘Fact Check’ […]
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I had missed the latest short-of-facts Politifact hit job in which Maria Ramirez Uribe mangled a statement on abortion made by pro-life Sen. JD Vance who is, of course, pro-life former President Donald Trump’s choice to be vice president.
Fortunately Ramesh Ponnuru didn’t miss it in his column for National Review Online headlined “Politifact’s Latest Logic- and Evidence-Free ‘Fact Check’ on Abortion.”
Uribe quotes Vance who said
“Donald Trump is running against a Joe Biden president who wants taxpayer-funded abortions up until the moment of birth,” Vance said.
She thunders
This is False and misleads about how rarely abortions are performed later in pregnancy.
I scoured both Uribe’s pretend takedown and what Vance actually said and Ponnuru is absolutely correct: “Vance supposedly misled people about the frequency of abortions late in pregnancy by . . . not saying one word about the frequency of abortions later in pregnancy.”
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Politifact “goes on to say that abortions later in pregnancy are a small percentage of all abortions, which is true but neither touches Vance’s point that Biden’s policy is to allow them not even establishes that they are rare,” Ponnuru continues. “It also claims that abortions later in pregnancy are ‘typically ‘for health reasons. Even if true — and Politifact provides no footnote or link — this would again be irrelevant to Vance’s point.”
Note, unsurprisingly, that the” experts” Politifact’s cites to back up its claim that Vance’s comment is “False” are all pro-abortion. And “None of these experts provides any evidence that Biden is willing to place any legal restrictions on abortion even late in pregnancy,” Ponnuru explains. Biden “says he believes in ‘a woman’s right to choose’ and won’t say he wants limits on that supposed right late in pregnancy.”
But if you “draw the obvious conclusion,” Ponnuru concludes, “and an entire industry of fact-checkers will pretend you’re wrong.”
Nicely done!
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.
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