Ron DeSantis: "I think the danger from Congress is if we lose the election, they’re going to try to nationalize abortion up until the moment of birth. And in some liberal states, you have post-birth abortions and think that is wrong." pic.twitter.com/2TmYEJEwJn
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 18, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is running for President of the United States — falsely claimed on CNN that “liberal states” have “post-birth abortions,” notes Politifact:
…The post-birth abortion claim is something that Republicans and anti-abortion activists have repeated for years, before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The claim was wrong then, and it is wrong now: Willfully terminating a newborn’s life is not legal in any state…
When asked for evidence to support his claim, a DeSantis campaign aide pointed us to two resources, neither of which established that states sanction killing newborns…
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists also rebutted the statement and said that “there is no such thing.”
(Sources: CNN via Twitter, Politifact)