Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made a wildly false claim about Democrats attempting to murder babies via the party’s abortion policies on Wednesday.
Abbott told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s seen reports that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who Vice President Kamala Harris chose as her running mate this week, was against a state law that would have “required medical care for any baby who actually survives an abortion.”
“That’s something that needs to be looked into if he’s against that, because that would be another horrific policy by the Democrats and their zeal to try to kill young babies,” Abbott said.
Former President Donald Trump
has pushed similar abortion talk over the years, including in April when he claimed on his Truth Social platform that Democrats support the “execution” of babies.
Reproductive health experts have criticized Trump over the claim, which PolitiFact declared to be false. Experts told The Associated Press in April that it isn’t physically possible to perform an abortion if the person has gone into labor later in a pregnancy.
Tapper, elsewhere in his interview with Abbott, pressed the governor about a recent study that found infant deaths in Texas surged 12.9% between 2021 and 2022, when the state’s strict abortion ban first went into effect, while infant mortality rates rose 8.3% in the state in that time period.
The study found that the rest of the U.S. saw a 1.8% increase in infant deaths and a 2.2% increase in infant mortality rates during that time.
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