The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and the media trying to fact-check Republican claims that Democrats are the real radicals on abortion. Unfortunately for CNN’s Jake Tapper, Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was there on Wednesday’s edition of The Lead to educate him on just how radical Walz is on the issue.

Tapper naturally sought to paint Abbott as the radical, “And in that same time period, infant mortality rates rose 8.3 percent in Texas compared with an increase of 2.2 percent in the rest of the nation. Are you concerned at all about a possible link between your state’s abortion ban and these disastrous increases?”

 

 

Abbott claimed he was unfamiliar with the study, but it should be noted that Texas’s pro-life laws gave those babies a shot at life. Unfortunately, many didn’t make it, but if pro-abortion types had their way, they would not have even been given a chance.

As for Abbott, he promoted the other side of the story, “For another, obviously, it leaves out the math of all the babies who survived and are alive. We have a record number of babies who are born now who did not lose their life to abortion.”

He then turned his attention to Harris and Walz, “And this is an issue that you need to know Kamala Harris is going to have to deal with, just like Democrats had to deal with in the state of Texas. Kamala Harris supports abortion to the very last second before a fully developed child in the mother’s womb is born. That’s late term abortion. The baby can definitely feel the pain that definitely the baby who, if it survives one more minute, will be born, but instead, will lose his life.”

A displeased Tapper responded, “Where – are there – these abortions being carried out up until the moment of birth? I keep hearing Republican politicians talking about that. And I mean, that’s infanticide. I don’t know where this is going on.”

Abbott then informed him that, “it is in many states. It is the law of the states. The law in California, where Kamala Harris is from, is the law in Minnesota, where Governor Walz is from. And Governor Walz, from reports I`ve seen, was even against a law that they had that would have required medical care for any baby who actually survives an abortion. That’ something that needs to be looked into if he’s against that, because that would be another horrific policy by the Democrats and their zeal to try to kill young babies.”

Indeed, Walz repealed provisions of Minnesota law mandating that babies who survived abortions be given life-saving treatment. Walz also repealed laws against coercing women to obtain abortions and once bragged that former Speaker Nancy Pelosi told him to tone it down. Abbott is also correct to point out Walz’s Minnesota has no limits on abortion. It is not Republicans’ fault that Walz sounds like someone Republicans created in a lab to paint Democrats as radicals, and if CNN bothered to do their own research, they wouldn’t have to leave it to Republicans to inform their audience of such radicalism.

Here is a transcript for the August 7 show:

CNN The Lead with Jake Tapper

8/7/2024

5:12 PM ET

JAKE TAPPER: And in that same time period, infant mortality rates rose 8.3 percent in Texas compared with an increase of 2.2 percent in the rest of the nation. Are you concerned at all about a possible link between your state’s abortion ban and these disastrous increases?

GREG ABBOTT: So Jake, for one, I’m unfamiliar with that study, and I don’t know if, for a fact, it does tie a cause and effect relationship. For another, obviously, it leaves out the math of all the babies who survived and are alive. We have a record number of babies who are born now who did not lose their life to abortion. And this is an issue that you need to know Kamala Harris is going to have to deal with, just like Democrats had to deal with in the state of Texas. Kamala Harris supports abortion to the very last second before a fully developed child in the mother’s womb is born.

That’s late term abortion. The baby can definitely feel the pain that definitely the baby who, if it survives one more minute –

TAPPER: Where – are there abortions being –

ABBOTT: – will be born, but instead, will lose his life.

TAPPER: Where – are there – these abortions being carried out up until the moment of birth? I keep hearing Republican politicians talking about that. And I mean, that’s infanticide. I don’t know where this is going on.

ABBOTT: It is in many states. It is the law of the states. The law in California, where Kamala Harris is from, is the law in Minnesota, where Governor Walz is from. And Governor Walz, from reports I`ve seen, was even against a law that they had that would have required medical care for any baby who actually survives an abortion. That’ something that needs to be looked into if he’s against that, because that would be another horrific policy by the Democrats and their zeal to try to kill young babies.