Trump Falsely Claims Roe v. Wade Allowed Women ‘To Kill the Baby After Birth’

Former President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that Roe v. Wade had allowed women “to kill the baby after birth” during a discussion about abortion with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

During a conversation with Trump about Republican losses in the 2022 midterms, Hannity said, “The issue of abortion, I think it played a very big part. They demagogued that issue in 2022, in the midterm, and I think it hurt Republicans.”

Hannity then asked, “You took a strong stand on IVF. Where are you on that, and what is your message to other candidates, and where are you on abortion?”

Trump replied, “So I saw the IVF and a judge in Alabama made a very harsh decision. It was very, very tough, and I came out immediately and I said we want to help women. This is fertilization, this is they’re having a hard time having a baby, to put it very simply, and they are helped by clinics and others. And all of a sudden it was stopped in Alabama, and I put out a very strong statement that we’re totally in favor of it.”

The former president said he told Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), “We want that, we want people to help, we are on the side of women,” before adding, “Same thing on the abortion issue. The abortion issue, now, I’m for the exceptions like Ronald Reagan was for the exceptions.”

He claimed, “I think it’s a very important thing the exceptions. I also think that they are the radicals, because they will kill the baby in eight months, nine months. Under Roe v. Wade, they had the right to kill the baby after birth. I mean, literally, after birth in some cases.”

“That was the governor of Virginia at the time,” replied Hannity, in reference to the controversial remarks former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam made in support of late-term abortions.

In 2019, Northam received backlash over comments he made supporting a failed Virginia bill that would have allowed abortions up until childbirth.

Northam said such abortions would be conducted “in cases where there may be severe deformities” and “there may be a fetus that’s nonviable,” and explained that in such cases where the child would have to be placed on life support after birth, “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

The following year, Trump falsely accused Northam of having personally executed a baby.

In a rant about President Joe Biden, Trump claimed, “He endorsed a governor of Virginia who not only executed a baby, late-term abortion, but executed a baby because the baby can be born and then you can kill the baby.”

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