Does the Va. GOP really believe the governor supports infanticide? 'You saw the tape.'
Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted he never thought he “would see the day America had government officials who openly support legal infanticide.”
President Donald Trump weighed in from the Oval Office. “Do you remember when I said Hillary Clinton was willing to rip the baby out of the womb? That’s what it is, that’s what they’re doing, it’s terrible.”
A headline from The Federalist, capturing the zeitgeist of coverage that’s dominated conservative media outlets, reported “Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Just Called For Legalizing Murder of Newborn Babies.”
But it’s easy to toss bombs from a distance. Is that really what Republican leaders in the Capitol, who lit the match that set off the firestorm, believe Northam, a pediatrician, was saying when he offered a clumsy explanation Wednesday of how a nonviable or severely deformed fetus might be handled at the end of a pregnancy?
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