FACT CHECK: Democrats’ abortion lies
In case you missed it… The Wall Street Journal has called out Democrats for their egregious lies about Republicans’ position on abortion, taking aim at Democrats’ “variations of this Handmaid’s Tale fiction.”
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Abortion has been a political winner for Democrats since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, but could its political power be waning? We ask because that might explain why Democrats are making claims about their opponents’ abortion views that are flat-out false.
Knowing their vulnerability on abortion, most Republicans are moving toward the middle on the issue. But as they’ve done so, Democrats are making ever-more dishonest claims about what Republicans supposedly believe.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running variations of this Handmaid’s Tale fiction, with ads accusing House Republican candidates of wanting to “allow state governments to track pregnant women to prosecute them if they get an abortion.”
The alleged source for this claim is the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy paper, which hasn’t been adopted by the GOP as a party and Mr. Trump has disavowed many times. But even Project 2025 doesn’t propose such a registry. Its hardly radical idea is for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand its collection of anonymous state statistics about abortions and miscarriages.
The idea is to better understand the scope and complications of certain procedures. There is no call for personal or pregnancy information at a federal or a state level. And by the way, the pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute collects data on the incidence of abortion and related issues without controversy.
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Politics isn’t pickleball, and distortions occur on both sides. But Democrats aren’t even attempting to be honest about abortion this year. Perhaps they’re lying so extravagantly because abortion is a rare issue on which they have a clear political advantage.
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The distortions can also harm more than other politicians. They can frighten some women into thinking they can’t risk getting urgent medical care if they have a pregnancy emergency. This from the party that claims to be the protector of women’s health. The next time you see an abortion ad from a Democrat, assume it’s not telling the truth.