The Posts fact check on the convention speeches last night includes this passage:<\/p>\n
Most abortions are performed in the earlier stages of pregnancy. About 1 percent happen after the fetus reaches the point of viability. In short, [RNC chairwoman Ronna] McDaniel and the president are describing something that rarely happens and that no Democrat is calling for, anyway.<\/p>\n
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and some others who competed in the Democratic presidential primary said they favored having no restrictions on abortion.<\/p>\n
Biden does not take such a sweeping position; he supports abortion rights and says he would codify in statute the Supreme Courts landmark ruling inRoe v. Wadeand related precedents.<\/p>\n
Experts told us that support for abortion rights doesnt mean Democrats support extreme late-term abortions. Thats like saying everyone who supports the Second Amendment supports school shootings, Katie L. Watson, a professor at Northwestern Universitys Feinberg School of Medicine, previously told The Fact Checker. Abortion until the moment of birth does not exist its a boogeyman abortion opponents have created to frighten voters and derail rational conversation about constitutional rights, Watson said. Nobody supports it, and nobody does it. No patient ever asks a physician to end her pregnancy the moment before birth, and no physician would agree to do it.<\/p>\n
Biden, exactly like Warren and Sanders, believes that abortion should be allowed, even late in pregnancy, if needed to preserve a womans emotional health. Thats what those related precedents (chiefly Doe v. Bolton, Roes companion case) suggest.<\/p>\n
Watsons parallel would work if Second Amendment activists believed that school shootings should be legal. Of course, they dont.<\/p>\n
A previous Post fact-check estimated (conservatively, insofar as it is using CDC numbers for the incidence of abortion) that more than 8,000 abortions are performed each year after viability. In the 2018-19 school year, there were 13 school-shooting deaths (according to Wikipedia). It is not my impression that the Post treats school-shooting deaths as events so rare that politicians should stop talking about them.<\/p>\n
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