A legislative effort to loosen restrictions on late-term abortion died last week in the Virginia General Assembly. Ralph Northam was a little too honest about what the bill would mean. When an interviewer asked him what would happen to a baby born alive during a third-trimester abortion, the governor—who also works as a pediatric neurologist—said calmly: “If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. 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...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 03, 2019 21:21 UTC