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Trump’s abortion rhetoric goes fully off the rails

At a Wisconsin rally and in the surrounding blowback, Trump pushed a false claim that Democrats support killing babies after birth, a lurid distortion that turned a policy debate into a gross, easily debunked spectacle. The line was not just provocative; it was politically sloppy, because it handed critics a clean example of Trump using made-up horror stories instead of arguments. It also risked muddying the public conversation around rare late-term abortion cases and the medical realities around them.

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First recorded Apr 29, 2019·Meaningfully updated Apr 29, 2019

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Trump’s abortion rhetoric goes fully off the rails

At a Wisconsin rally and in the surrounding blowback, Trump pushed a false claim that Democrats support killing babies after birth, a lurid distortion that turned a policy debate into a gross, easily debunked spectacle. The line was not just provocative; it was politically sloppy, because it handed critics a clean example of Trump using made-up horror stories instead of arguments. It also risked muddying the public …

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