In an attempt to cover up her own abortion extremism, Vice President Kamala Harris laced her Democratic National Convention speech with lies accusing former President Donald Trump and Republicans of being radicals whose views are out of line with most of the country.
Harris reaffirmed from the stage in Chicago on Thursday night that she believes anyone should be allowed to end their baby’s life through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason. Most Americans oppose Democrats’ unlimited abortion agenda, but that didn’t stop Harris from pretending Americans desire the death and danger that comes with her plan to pass legislation that would codify baby-killing until birth.
“And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law,” Harris declared
Harris’ first lie was claiming that a national law greenlighting widespread abortion would “restore reproductive freedom” instead of accurately noting that it would subject thousands of babies and women, nearly 70 percent of whom felt their abortions were forced, unwanted, or contradicted their views, to harm.
Ever since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, Democrats have falsely claimed that doctors are no longer permitted to treat ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages. Harris specifically told her DNC audience on Thursday, however, that the lifesaving laws designed to protect thousands of innocents every year from elective abortions prevent women suffering from spontaneous pregnancy loss or complications from receiving the care they need.
“I’ll tell you over the past two years I’ve traveled across our country and women have told me their stories husbands and fathers have shared their stories of women miscarrying in a parking lot, developing sepsis, losing the ability to ever again have children all because doctors are afraid they may go to jail for caring for their patients,” Harris claimed.
There is a clear legal distinction between an induced abortion, which deliberately intends to end the life of the baby, and the medically classified “spontaneous abortions” such as an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, or early delivery with the intent of saving the baby and mother.
States that limit when life in the womb can be ended do not criminalize treatments for spontaneous loss or complications. In fact, every single pro-life law on the books now contains exceptions for abortion when it is deemed necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman.
Harris’ lies, however, did not stop there. Instead, she pivoted to attacking Trump.
In just 45 seconds, Harris falsely accused her challenger of trying to “limit access to birth control,” ban the most popular and dangerous abortifacient drug regime on the market, “enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress,” name “a national anti-abortion coordinator,” and “force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.”
Not one word of that spiel is true.
Trump’s 2024 abortion platform explicitly states decisions about ending life in the womb should be left “up to the states.”
For months now, the GOP presidential nominee swore he would not sign federal legislation curbing abortion. His running mate Sen. J.D. Vance, similarly claimed the pill responsible for a 500 percent increase in abortion-related emergency room visits should remain legal and “accessible.”
Contrary to Harris’ assertions, the former president has not made crowning a national pro-life coordinator a hallmark of his campaign. Nor has he demanded better abortion reporting, despite the lack of baby-killing data from radical states like California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey.
Harris tried to pretend that Trump is to blame if a family gets “cut off in the middle of IVF treatments children” but Trump has openly touted in vitro fertilization, even though it is marred with ethical and moral pitfalls, as a procedure that Republicans and pro-life conservatives should promote.
Trump confirmed his positions on abortion, birth control, and IVF again in a post to Truth Social during Harris’ speech on Thursday night.
“I do not limit access to birth control or I.V.F. – THAT IS A LIE, these are all false stories that she’s making up, that I’ve never even heard of. It’s just words coming out of her mouth,” Trump wrote.
Harris’ litany of lies was well-deserving of a fact-check, but many of the major media outlets that pride themselves on nitpicking everything Trump says, including CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS and Mediaite, chose to elevate and celebrate Harris’ deception-riddled abortion rhetoric instead.
The few corporate media outlets that did bother to “fact-check” Harris’ speech downplayed her falsehoods. CNN specifically suggested that Harris’ incredibly inaccurate accusations about Trump’s pro-life track record merely “left out some important context.”
“There weren’t a lot of fact-checkable claims tonight period,” CNN’s Daniel Dale told Jake Tapper during his on-air analysis of Harris’ speech.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
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