Today President Donald Trump became the first president to address the March for Life in person. And a leftwing writer over there at Mediaite decided to tell a decided untruth about it.
Here’s the Mediaite story. The headline:
Trump Tells Dangerous Lie That Gov. Northam Would ‘Execute A Baby After Birth’ To Massive DC March For Life Crowd
The story was by-lined by leftist writer Tommy Christopher. It said this:
“President Donald Trump became the first president to appear in person at the anti-abortion rights “March for Life,” and proceeded to tell the crowd that Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam “stated that he would execute a baby after birth,” a dangerous lie that he has repeated often.”
What Trump said about Northam was a “dangerous lie”? Really?
Here is another story altogether from The Daily Caller dated January 30, 2019. The headline:
Virginia Governor Asked About Abortion Until Birth. He Floats Infanticide
The Daily Caller story said this, bold print for emphasis supplied:
“Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam couldn’t precisely answer whether he supports abortion until birth and suggested an infant could be born and then the mother and doctor could discuss what should happen next, in a Wednesday morning interview.
‘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’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother,’ Northam said in a WTOP interview.”
Hello? A baby is born alive? It is to be “kept comfortable”? It would be “resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired”? And then “a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
Really? A “discussion” about what? Saving for the baby’s college fund? Whether he or she is a future president? A candidate for a long-in-the future NFL draft? The next wizard of Silicon Valley?
The only “dangerous lie” in that Mediaite story is Christopher denying – pretending – that Governor Northam said what he quite plainly said.
Quite plainly Northam was, in fact, suggesting that “the decision” that “would ensue” while the living, breathing, very-much-alive baby was being kept “comfortable” was, yes indeed, to let it live – or to kill it. That was the entire premise behind Northam’s answer.
One can agree, if one is pro-abortion, or disagree, if one is pro-life, with what Northam said. But that he said it there can be no doubt.
Yet there we are over there at Mediaite with a far-left wing writer saying that what was and is plainly obvious about Northam’s statement is “a dangerous lie.”
The only “dangerous lie” in that Mediaite story is Christopher denying – pretending – that Governor Northam said what he quite plainly said.
