Clinton on Late-Term Abortions: Checking the Fact-Checkers
They’re helping Hillary obscure her position.
By Ramesh Ponnuru — October 14, 2016
Does Hillary Clinton believe that abortion should be legal even very late in pregnancy? Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are among those who have said she does, and several “fact-checkers” have denied it – most recently W. Gardner Selby at PolitiFact Texas. (I came across Selby’s article via David Harsanyi’s debunking of it.) The fact-checkers are both wrong and out of their depth.
Selby notes that Clinton has on several occasions said that she would be willing to restrict late-term abortions and partial-birth abortions so long as an exception were made to protect the health of the mother. Pro-lifers have generally dismissed those comments because health has been defined so broadly that a ban with such an exception is unenforceable.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court held that governments could restrict abortion late in pregnancy so long as they made an exception for health. In the companion case of Doe v. Bolton, Justice Blackmun, the author of Roe, said a little more about health:
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