FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Leslie Palma
917-639-7039
TITUSVILLE, FL -- Prolife Leader Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, released the following statement today regarding the presidential debate Tuesday:
“ABC News and its anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis disgraced themselves and their professions on Tuesday night because of the blatant bias they exhibited against the leading candidate for president of the United States, and because of their inability to fact check fairly or even accurately.
“They ‘fact-checked’ only one of the candidates, Donald Trump. They interrupted only one of the candidates, Donald Trump. And they pushed back on only one of the candidates, Donald Trump.
“The section of the debate on abortion was particularly egregious. There was no fact-checking of Kamala Harris when she denied that Democrats are in favor of abortion through birth and even after birth; there was no willingness to have her answer the question about her support for abortion in the final months of pregnancy, and the statement about no state permitting the killing babies after birth is simply not true.
“The multiple hearings and votes in Congress over the years, as well as in the individual states, on bills that would fill the gaps in protection for children who survive abortion provide ample evidence not only that such children are killed but that the Democrats steadfastly oppose any efforts to prevent that.
“As one of the nation’s leading pro-life organizations, we call upon ABC News to publicly correct its errors on abortion. On an issue as fundamental, as divisive and as emotionally charged as this, America cannot afford to continue on the path we have been for more than 50 years – a path that seems to preclude any honest debate about abortion, because one side of the debate simply refuses that honesty.
“We further call upon Kamala Harris and her campaign to stop trying to have it both ways on abortion. They want to push the most extreme position possible, and then deny it when confronted with it. They want to celebrate abortion as an essential aspect of freedom and healthcare, but don’t want to describe it.
“We are calling on our membership to raise their voices on this issue at this critical moment of our elections and of the pro-life cause. We will, as a movement, bring those voices both to ABC News and to the Harris-Walz Campaign, and will continue to shine a bright light, through our own broadcasting in the weeks to come, on the disservice that ABC News and the Harris-Walz campaign continue to inflict on America.”