Democrats unequivocally support a woman’s right to choose abortion throughout pregnancy.

Democrats and Late-Term Abortion: The Uncomfortable ⁢Truth

While wrapping up a recent segment with an Iowa ⁤pro-life‍ advocate, CNN’s Dana Bash let her audience know that⁢ despite her guest’s contentions, she had never “talked to a Democrat ⁤who wants abortion-on-demand until time of birth.”

Just because Democrats haven’t talked to Bash about personally driving pregnant ⁤women down to Maryland’s all-trimester ⁢abortion clinic or Warren Hern’s busy Boulder shop ⁢— where he admits to performing late-term abortions ​on perfectly healthy women and fetuses — those places⁢ still exist. And they exist because Democrats, including the president, support legal abortion for any reason until the moment of⁢ birth.

Numerous states have passed laws that effectively allow unfettered late-term abortions.​ States ​like Colorado boast that these policies create “social, moral, and economic ⁤benefits.”​ Washington Democrats have also attempted ⁢on numerous occasions to “codify” such policy nationally. The Women’s Health Protection Act, for instance, would have made abortion legal over the ‌first two⁣ trimesters and then allowed for the termination of‌ a pregnancy when a healthcare​ provider (who doesn’t have to be a ⁣doctor) determines that a woman’s life is⁣ threatened (which​ no one ⁢opposes) or ‍if they detect any mental distress (which can mean anything.) Only one Democrat voted against it.

Of course, rather than repeating what Democrats talk about, Bash ​could ⁤simply ask them‌ to list specific legal limitations they support. I’ve yet to hear one. ⁣Every time “pro-choice” politician is challenged to provide a limit (which is rarely), they offer the same tedious answer ‌about how ending a ⁤life is⁢ solely the purview of a woman ⁢and⁣ her “doctor.”

NBC reporter Dasha Burns ⁢played the same dishonest game with Ron DeSantis recently, ‍calling the governor’s‌ claim that ‌Democrats support abortion without limits a “misrepresentation,” noting that⁤ “there’s no indication of⁢ Democrats pushing for that.” She is objectively wrong on that count. But let’s not ignore the first‍ part of ​her statement,​ in which she says “1.3 percent of abortions happen at 21 weeks ​or higher.”

Just imagine ⁣a reporter dismissing the victims⁤ of school shootings as a rounding​ error because the victims only represent .00001⁤ of firearm fatalities. Those ⁤1.3 ‌percent of abortions, by the way, result in the termination of something​ like 8,000-10,000 viable unborn children’s⁢ lives ​— or around ‌8,000-10,000 more‍ than die from the dangerous “extreme ‍weather” the ‍media keep scaremongering ​about.

For​ years, media and “fact-checkers” have sworn that no Democrat has ever supported a third-trimester abortion⁢ but also that third-trimester abortions are “extremely rare.” Experts, they report, promise that late-term ⁢abortions typically occur because of⁢ “fetal abnormalities.”

Plenty of evidence suggests that ⁤women get ‌late-term abortions for‌ the ⁣same reasons they​ get early abortions: birth control. The pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found that both medical literature and late-term abortion providers show most late-term procedures are not performed for “maternal health complications or⁤ lethal fetal⁢ anomalies discovered late in pregnancy.” ⁢That finding corresponds with a pro-abortion​ Guttmacher Institute study contending most women‌ who seek late-term abortions “are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”

More than that, if these hand-picked experts and Democrats truly believed third-trimester abortions were “extremely rare” and only existed to mitigate genuine health risks, they wouldn’t oppose regulations to ensure the ⁤protection of‌ both mothers and unborn children. As it⁤ stands, however, Democrats not only oppose any and all post-viable limitations on ​abortions, they oppose compelling doctors to provide infants who survive attempted abortions ​the care​ provided any other human being. Again, it’s almost ​certainly true that Bernie Sanders isn’t​ “talking” to Bash about denying unwanted newborns any legal protection; he ‌simply votes to make sure they are denied it.

The point of all ‍this ​is⁤ to create the impression that support for trimester abortion exists only in⁤ the paranoiac ⁢imagination of pro-life extremists. Recall, ​however, that it was only a⁢ couple ⁢of weeks⁤ ago the entire media was up in arms ‌over‌ the story of ⁣an 18-year-old ⁣Nebraska woman who was sentenced to 90 days in⁤ jail after killing her‌ unborn baby at 30 weeks. Even ‍though she​ wasn’t convicted on an⁢ abortion charge,⁤ the incident was meant to illustrate the consequences of ⁤pro-life fanaticism.

What it illustrated to me is that the political left doesn’t believe terminating the life ​of a healthy ⁤viable fetus ⁢and then burning the body and ⁤throwing the remains into a pit should be punished. Because it doesn’t ⁢believe ‍in any limits.