Clueless Reporters Deny the Reality of Partial-Birth Abortion

Kyle Drennen | October 20, 2016
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

On Thursday morning, journalists on CBS and CNN were aghast at Donald Trump bluntly and accurately describing Hillary Clinton’s support for partial-birth abortion. Attempting to fact-check the Republican nominee on CBS This Morning, former Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer falsely asserted: “...no woman carries a child for eight and a half months and then decides she wants to have an abortion.”

He continued: “The abortions that happen at that period are usually about the life of the mother. Nobody does that. And that is just – that's just horrible to even contemplate.”

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