Former president Donald Trump took matters into his own hands during Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on the issue of late-term abortion, pressing the Democrat on whether she supports abortions up to the ninth month of pregnancy—but Harris refused to answer.
The former president presented the question to Harris during Tuesday’s presidential debate when discussing the issue of abortion and reproductive rights.
"You should ask," Trump said to ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. "Will she allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month?"
"Come on," Harris responded, though without answering the question.
"Would you do that? Why don’t you ask her that question?" Trump replied. "You could do abortions in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month."
"That’s not true," Harris interjected again without stating her position.
Trump cited remarks from former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who came under fire in 2019 for defending abortions in the third trimester of pregnancy.
"[Third trimester abortions are] done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s nonviable," Northam said, before describing how such an abortion would be performed.
"The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother."