Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam disgusted many Wednesday when he came out in support of a failed state bill that would have allowed abortions to be carried out on a child that had been fully “delivered.” This came after New York State had signed into law another disgusting bill that allowed abortions up till the due date. These efforts by Democrats went completely unreported during the morning and evening news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC. And despite their sizeable pro-life audiences, the top two Spanish-language television networks, Telemundo and Univision, ignored it as well.

In contrast, Northam’s abortion comments were the first topic on the table for the Fox News Channel’s Special Report. And during the panel discussion later in the show, the comments prompted Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen to suggest the Democrats were becoming the “party of death.”

In an interview with radio station WTOP, out of Washington, D.C., Northam described how he envisioned the extremely late-term abortions would work in response to a question by NBC4 Northern Virginia bureau chief Julie Carey:

So, in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if that is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue.

“This is another example of the Democrats putting themselves outside of the mainstream of America by taking radical positions that are completely out of touch with most Americans,” Thiessen decried. What Northam wanted was an abortion system that went far outside what many Americans viewed as acceptable and it was proven by the numbers.

According to Tom Bevan, co-founder of Real Clear Politics, who was also on the Special Report panel, “This Gallup poll, which was taken just in May of 2018, 80 percent of people think it should be illegal -- abortion should be illegal in the third term. And if you get right up to the end, it would be even higher than that.”

Citing a Marist/Knights of Columbus poll from earlier in the month, anchor Bret Baier shared an on-screen graphic that showed only 15 percent of America supported Abortions “any time during pregnancy.” That’s compared to a combined 74 percent of respondents who wanted some kind restriction on abortion, such as first-trimester and “rape, incest, or to save mother.” 10 percent said abortion “should never be permitted.”

Baier also noted that the poll found that 42 percent of people thought life began “at conception”, compared to the only 13 percent who said “when baby is born.” And 38 percent was spread out between different time periods while still in the mother, including 19 percent who said “when fetus is viable outside the womb.”

The Fox News anchor also highlighted the outrage from Republican politicians:

Ben Sasse, senator, released a statement: “This is morally repugnant. In just a few years, pro-abortion zealots went from ‘safe, legal, rare’ to ‘keep the newborns comfortable while the doctor debates infanticide’. I don't care what party you are from, if you can't say it's wrong to leave babies to die after birth, get the hell out of public office.” Marco Rubio, "I never thought I would see the day American had government officials who openly support legal infanticide." Nikki Haley: What is happening in our country? This literally makes me sick to my stomach. Adoption is always an option.”

Adding another dimension to the conversation, Baier retweeted after the show a clip of John Franklin Stephens, a man living with Down Syndrome, who pleaded before the United Nation last year against Iceland’s barbaric “cure” for him. “I am a man. See me as a human being, not a birth defect, not a syndrome,” he said. “I don’t need to be eradicated. I don't need to be cured. I need to be loved, valued, educated and, sometimes, helped.”

As they were wrapping up that segment, Thiessen pointed out how each party had been approaching the issue of abortion and unloaded on the Democrats: “So, when Republicans are putting reasonable restrictions on abortion, those are things that the 75 percent position. What Democrats are doing are 13 percent or less position, which is saying up until the moment of birth. If you want to see a party has officially become the party of death, that's it.”

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