Virginia State Elections: GOP Warns of Democrats’ Abortion Extremism

‘A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say,” the journalist Michael Kinsley famously quipped. Earlier this year, Virginia Democrat Kathy Tran committed the worst sort of Kinsleyan gaffe, if the word “gaffe” is appropriate when discussing the horror of what Tran was proposing.

At a legislative hearing in January, Tran’s Republican colleague Todd Gilbert asked her about her bill remove existing restrictions on third-trimester abortions.

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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‘A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say,” the journalist Michael Kinsley famously quipped. Earlier this year, Virginia Democrat Kathy Tran committed the worst sort of Kinsleyan gaffe, if the word “gaffe” is appropriate when discussing the horror of what Tran was proposing.

At a legislative hearing in January, Tran’s Republican colleague Todd Gilbert asked her about her bill remove existing restrictions on third-trimester abortions.