Ron DeSantis & Abortion: NBC’s Faulty Abortion Fact-Check

In a new interview with Ron DeSantis, NBC reporter Dasha Burns badly botched an attempted real-time fact-check of the Florida governor’s claim that Democrats are pushing for abortion to be legal until birth.

Burns called DeSantis’s claim a “misrepresentation” and asserted that “there’s no indication of Democrats pushing for that.” But in fact, nearly every Democrat in Congress has voted for legislation that would effectively impose a nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

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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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In a new interview with Ron DeSantis, NBC reporter Dasha Burns badly botched an attempted real-time fact-check of the Florida governor’s claim that Democrats are pushing for abortion to be legal until birth.

Burns called DeSantis’s claim a “misrepresentation” and asserted that “there’s no indication of Democrats pushing for that.” But in fact, nearly every Democrat in Congress has voted for legislation that would effectively impose a nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.