The origins of Trump’s false claim that Democrats want to allow ‘execution’ of babies after birthThe origins of Trump’s false claim that Democrats want to allow ‘execution’ of babies after birth 

At Tuesday night’s presidential debate, when former President Donald Trump was asked about his stance on abortion access, he offered a now-familiar explanation for his support for gestational abortion limits early in pregnancy and for overturning Roe v. Wade: the idea that, otherwise, after-birth execution of newborns would be allowed.