During this weekend’s interview with Donald Trump, new “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker unfurled many of the usual deceitful assertions regarding abortion.
When the GOP presidential candidate argued, for example, that Democrats don’t support any limitations on the procedure, sometimes even after birth, Welker responded by saying, “Democrats are not talking about that … only 1 percent of late-term abortions happen, and always in the state of crisis.”
Only 1 percent, you say? Only less than 1 percent of homicides are of the mass shooting variety, and even fewer occur in schools. Would Welker frame school shootings as unimportant or unworthy of further policy discussion? After all, no Republican is “talking about” shooting up schools.
It is true that late-term abortions make up about 1 percent of the total, which is to say around 10,000 viable humans are being aborted at 21 weeks or older each year every year. Well, “only” 10,000, apparently.
And if Democrats aren’t “talking about that” then how is it that “all-trimester” abortion clinics are operating in Maryland and elsewhere? Why is Warren Hern as busy as ever in his Boulder chop shop — where he admits to performing late-term abortions on perfectly healthy women and babies? As we know, most late-term abortions are, like others, not induced in a “state of crisis” but used as a form of birth control.
Hern operates in Colorado, where the abortion of viable unborn children is legal, for any reason, until crowning. The law goes on to praise the “social, moral, and economic benefits” of having abortions. It does not even mention viability, like Casey and
