On Thursday morning, journalists on CBS and CNN were aghast at Donald Trump bluntly and accurately describing Hillary Clinton’s support for partial-birth abortion. Attempting to fact-check the Republican nominee on CBS This Morning, former Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer falsely asserted: “...no woman carries a child for eight and a half months and then decides she wants to have an abortion.”

He continued: “The abortions that happen at that period are usually about the life of the mother. Nobody does that. And that is just – that's just horrible to even contemplate.”

On CNN’s New Day, anchor Alisyn Camerota pressed Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes on the issue: “Donald Trump used some pretty graphic, certainly striking language about abortion, and he said something that many people just say is not true. That he was basically saying, you know, a woman can demand an abortion one day before her due date, you know, at nine months and it's just so horrific. Not true.”

Co-anchor Chris Cuomo chimed in: “Some would argue that's called birth, if you take a baby out at that last stage, it's viable.” Camerota added: “There are also all sorts of laws in this country that set 18 weeks in some states, 20 weeks in some states, 22 weeks as the limit. So what was he what was he, what was the point he was trying to make last night?”

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Such restrictions on the horrific practice were first passed by Republicans in 2003, over the objections of Democrats like Hillary Clinton, something Hughes pointed out:

So the killing of a baby, partial-birth abortion, which Hillary Clinton did support, whether, like I said, even if it's 10, 20 weeks – 20 weeks into their due date, it is just murder in our viewpoint and Mr. Trump took a hard stance yesterday saying that he would fight hard to make sure that the future generation of women would have a chance to live....Hillary Clinton does support partial-birth abortions at different stages...

Cuomo demanded: “But isn't it, Scottie, a reflection of what the law is?...you have to take the women's – the woman's choice and the woman's health into consideration no matter what stage it is....Do you believe that a woman doesn't have a right to decide what happens to their own body?”

Hughes countered: “...what we're talking about is women who have started to use this as a version of birth control who’ve had multiple abortions, who sit there and decide they find out a genetic test that their child might have some sort of mental handicap and decide that they just don't think they can handle that type of child and that is what makes them decide to have an abortion.”

Clinton surrogate Symone Sanders joined the CNN hosts in denying the reality of partial-birth abortion: “[Trump] used very graphic and extreme language to describe what is not happening in terms of just yanking, basically, a full-born baby out of a woman's uterus. That is not what happens.” Before the GOP-led ban on the procedure, that is exactly what happened.

Hughes also cited the case of abortionist Kermit Gosnell being convicted of murder for violating the ban: “ I'm sorry, Symone, the killing of a baby like what we saw with Gosnell, Dr. Gosnell, is graphic. And I think Americans need to know the truth about what abortion is....children who come out still alive and then are murdered, yes, those stories need to be told I think a little bit more, and then maybe we would have women have more of a appreciation for life before they ended it.”

Camerota made sure to get in one last dig: “The majority of voters support keeping abortion legal, so I'm glad we're clarifying all of this.”

Here are transcripts of the October 20 remarks on CBS and CNN: