Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

Let's join this week's conversation. Well, thank you for listening to Mortification of Spin today.

My name is Todd Pruitt, and I'm joined as always by Carl Truman and Amy Bird.

Today we want to talk about a serious topic.

We oftentimes, I think, usually talk about serious topics, but we're also quite willing to throw in some humor and irony along the way.

This is one of those subjects that really does not lend itself to that.

And of course, it has to do with the recent news that has flared up around the issue of abortion.

In recent weeks, there has been the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., which is, from what I understand, still, the largest human rights public demonstration in the world.

But that was followed quickly by a very disturbing development in the state of New York.

Governor Cuomo, along with the state legislature, celebrated quite vociferously the passage

of legislation that will allow for late-term abortions.

There's many states that do not allow, technically at least, don't allow for third trimester

or late-term abortions.

Of course, the implication here is that an abortion can be had over issues of, quote, the health or the well-being of the mother, up to the point of delivery.

And so there was great outrage over that.

Well, just the very next week in my own state of Virginia, state delegate Kathy Tran was introducing a piece of legislation

that she was sponsoring, dealing with late-term abortions. And in a committee hearing, she was

asked numerous questions, and she confirmed, rather uncomfortably, I might add, but she confirmed that her piece of

legislation would allow for abortions up to the time where the mother is actually delivering

the child.

Now, that's not something that I read into her comments, but she was repeatedly pressed because her

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