Dear Friends:
Nearly 60 million people tuned into last night’s presidential debate in Philadelphia between Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat nominee, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate.
But what I’m writing you today is about neither political candidates nor political parties. Not even the election.
One of the more pointed parts of last night’s exchange involved the now half-century plus debate over the sanctity of life. Specifically, ABC moderator Linsey Davis erroneously stated, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”
Ms. Davis is mistaken. Babies who are born after failed abortions have been legally abandoned and have died. That’s infanticide.
Earlier today, I sent a letter to Almin Karamehmedovic, the president of ABC News, and requested the network issue an immediate correction. I’m sharing a copy of that letter below.
Jim Daly
President, Focus on the Family
P.S. I hope you’ll take a moment to read the letter below, which I sent to Almin Karamehmedovic, the president of ABC News.
September 11, 2024
Almin Karamehmedovic
President
ABC News
7 West 66th Street
New York, NY 10023.
Dear Mr. Karamehmedovic:
During Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, debate co-moderator Linsey Davis attempted to fact-check the former president’s comments concerning the death of babies following failed abortions.
Ms. Davis stated: “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”
We wish this was true. Sadly, it is not.
The Born-Alive Infant Protect Act of 2002 has proven inadequate in providing life-saving care for the hundreds of babies born following failed abortions. Tragically, Democrats — including Vice President Harris while serving in the United States Senate — have repeatedly blocked legislation (Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act) that would require doctors and health care professionals to “exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of a child” born alive following an attempted abortion.
For example, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed legislation in his state last year that no longer requires lifesaving measures be taken to help children born after an abortion attempt. Records indicate that eight children in 2019 faced this gruesome fate – and five of them were left to die. No medical professional did anything to help sustain their lives.
During the debate, former President Trump referred to former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s cold and callous answer during a radio interview when he described the scene of a failed abortion where the child is delivered alive. ‘The infant would be delivered,” Northam said. “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.”
What Governor Northam was describing, and the bill that Governor Walz signed last year, constitutes infanticide.
The moderators also chose to ignore the statistical reality of the tragedy of late-term abortion. They never fact-checked Vice President Harris’ claim that President Trump’s suggestion that women are having late-term abortion was somehow “insulting.” In truth, there are more than 50,000 abortion each year of babies after 15 weeks’ gestation and more than 10,000 after 20 weeks.
ABC News and Linsey Davis owe the American people an apology and an immediate correction. As the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously observed, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.”
Sincerely,
Jim Daly
President, Focus on the Family
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The same class of hardened rebels who have no sense or consciousness of right and wrong. Everything they feel like doing is right in their own eyes. They completely reverse evil and good, darkness and light, bitter and sweet. Davis has said that Trump is a white supremist and she is a liar. I would say Trump lost the battle but won the war. https://youtu.be/ufG0WC2Osuo?si=73vnd-qCcjF30X92
Infanticide. Murder. Without repenting and turning back to God? No politicians can save this country from falling.
Misinformation? This was just the tip of the iceberg:
Vice President Kamala Harris issued a slew of false claims and hoaxes that ABC debate moderators did not fact check during Tuesday’s debate against former President Donald Trump.
False claims and hoaxes that Harris uttered on live television, in front of millions of Americans:
1. “Very fine people” hoax
2. Project 2025 hoax
3. False claims on Trump trade deficit
4. Putin can “do whatever the hell he wants”
5. “Dictator on day one” hoax
6. Blaming botched Afghanistan withdrawal on Trump
7. Putin “would be sitting in Kyiv”
8. “Bloodbath” hoax
9. Abortion “monitor” hoax
10. Rental property hoax
11. Central Park Five “execution” hoax
12. “Suckers and losers” hoax
13. False fracking claims
14. False oil production claims
15. National Sales Tax
16. Distorting unemployment figures
17. “I was raised middle-class”
18. “Terminating” the Constitution
19. “Sold us out” to China
20. “Not one” troop in any war zone
21. Taking guns away
...........Diehard Trump Fans and diehard Kamala fans will vote no matter what happens. However, all of the Independents and Undecided Voters? Another story. ABC just threw away the Election. Of course, they did this in 2016 also.
The other problem is Harris is a polished career politician and has all her catch phrases down.
Something else to consider....... To the left, Dick Cheney is considered (and has been called) Darth Vader.
That being said..... Kamala whole heartedly embraced being endorsed by "Darth Vader."
Just let that settle in a bit.
The one main difference between this and the movies........
He won't have to tell her to embrace the dark side, she already has.
Kamala: "Women should be free to choose what they do with their own bodies." "That is until the government tells you to comply with being jabbed with an untested substance. Then it is not up to you to choose." "The government should have no say in what a woman does with her body, until we tell you what to do with your body."
And what has Kamala and Walz said concerning abortion???
I wouldn't mind writing a letter myself but I couldn't find an email to write to. I wish we would all write letters.
We should all write letters if I could only figure out an address to write to.
Mr.Trump said on TV 3 weeks ago that he’s not a Christian.
But there is that possibility he is now. Can you recite where he made that statement, please?
“I believe in God. I am Christian. I think The Bible is certainly, it is THE book,’ Trump told CBN’s David Brody.
“It is the thing. I was raised and I gave you a picture just now and perhaps you’ll use that picture I found it from a long time ago. First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica Queens is where I went to church,” he said. “I’m a Protestant, I’m a Presbyterian. And you know I’ve had a good relationship with the church over the years. I think religion is a wonderful thing. I think my religion is a wonderful religion.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/04/trump-talks-about-religion-052942
So, your Freudian slip is showing. If any here supported Harris/Walz, you would beat them like a dead horse, but seeing as "nobody here is supporting those two" you will beat on and point out faults (you see) of the one that might be supported here.
Troll much????
I loathe that my taxes go towards supporting this agenda.
Have you slandered and born false witness at times?
......Yes!
There is a difference between TRUTH, and YOUR truth.