Presidential Debate #factchecking Abortion after delivery

you know the issue of abortion rights emerges every year in the general assembly session this year no exception there was a very contentious Committee hearing yesterday when Fairfax County delegate Kathy Tran made her case for lifting restrictions on third trimester abortions as well as other restrictions now in place and she was pressed by a republican delegate about whether her bill would permit an abortion even as a woman is essentially dilating ready to give birth and she answered that it would permit an abortion at that stage of Labor do you support her measure and and explain her answer yeah and I'm you know I wasn't there uh Julie and I I certainly can't speak for uh delegate Tran but um I would tell you one first thing I would say this is why decisions such as this should be made by providers uh Physicians uh and uh the uh mothers uh and fathers that that are involved um there are you know when we talk about third trimester abortions these are done uh with the consent of obviously the the mother with the consent uh of the Physicians more than one physician by the way um and it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities there may be a a fetus that's non viable so in this particular example uh if a mother is in labor I can tell you exactly uh what would happen um the infant would be delivered uh the infant would be kept comfortable uh the infant would be resuscitated if if that's what the uh mother and the family desired and then a discussion would ensue between the Physicians and the mother so so I think this was really blown out of proportion uh but again we want the government not to be involved in these types of decisions we want the decision to be made by uh the the mothers and their providers and and this is why Julie that legislators most of whom are men by the way shouldn't be telling a woman what she should and shouldn't be doing with her body and do you think multiple Physicians should have to weigh in as is currently required she's trying to lift that requirement well I think it's always good to get a second opinion and for for at least two providers to be involved in that decision because these decisions shouldn't be taken lately and and so you know I I would certainly support more than one provider all right let's uh go back to the phones now uh for the governor