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The first debate between U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris made clear, again, that abortion

is a front and center issue in this election.

And also made clear that each candidate's more committed to a narrative about abortion

than to the full truth.

Harris defended abortion by emotionally appealing to extreme cases that were either unlike

the vast majority of abortion such as minors who were victims of sexual abuse or were just

flatly misleading such as women refused care for miscarriages. Trump attempted to

distance himself from the issue. Once again he took credit for what he called the impossible, the overturning of

Roe, and the returning of the issue of abortion to the states.

He said that he supported abortion in cases of the exceptions of rape, incest, and the health of the mother, but he did not discuss

the evil of abortion like he did back in 2016.

He emphasized that voters were now free to decide if abortion should be legal in the states in which they live.

Trump rightly pointed out that under Roe abortion was legal in the third trimester.

Harris denied that claim, arguing that, and I quote,

no woman is carrying a pregnancy to term and then asking for an abortion.

But in fact, under Roe v. Wade, there was nothing prohibiting late-term abortions at the federal level.

And today, in nine states, plus one, prohibiting late-term abortions at the federal level.

And today, in nine states, plus Washington, D.C., late-term abortion remains legal.

In 2023, according to investigative research from live action, an estimated 10,370 pre-born

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