PolitiFact Covers for Val Demings on Late-Term Abortion

On Friday, PolitiFact published an article claiming it’s “mostly false” to say that Florida Democratic congresswoman Val Demings “supports abortion up until the moment of birth.”

But that claim — made by Demings’s Senate GOP campaign opponent Marco Rubio — is a fair one. Demings voted for a federal abortion bill — the “Women’s Health Protection Act” (WHPA) — that effectively creates a right to abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy in all 50 states, as a National Review editorial explained:

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

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On Friday, PolitiFact published an article claiming it’s “mostly false” to say that Florida Democratic congresswoman Val Demings “supports abortion up until the moment of birth.”

But that claim — made by Demings’s Senate GOP campaign opponent Marco Rubio — is a fair one. Demings voted for a federal abortion bill — the “Women’s Health Protection Act” (WHPA) — that effectively creates a right to abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy in all 50 states, as a National Review editorial explained: