The candidates finally talked about abortion during the final presidential debate [1] last week, but unfortunately, Donald Trump [2] and moderator Chris Wallace got a lot wrong about the procedure. Fortunately for us, Sam Bee corrected their erroneous statements in her latest Full Frontal segment starting with Wallace asking a question about partial-birth abortions.
Bee grabs a megaphone to proclaim that partial-birth abortions "are not a thing" and that the term was made up by anti-abortion groups in the '90s. The correct term, she noted, is "late-term" abortion. "Chris Wallace conflated partial-birth abortion, which doesn't exist, with late-term abortion, which does — rarely" she said.
She then described just how rare late-term abortions are and how they occur only when the fetus has a fatal birth defect or the mother's life is in danger — not, contrary to what some think, as some type of last-minute birth control because the mother decides she doesn't want to have a baby anymore.
Bee wasn't going to let Trump off the hook, either. She expertly takes on Trump for claiming that doctors "rip babies out of the womb" [3] late into the third trimester, saying, "Removing a baby from a woman's womb in the ninth month isn't an abortion: it's a birth." She rounds out the segment by praising Clinton's passionate response to Trump [4] when the Democratic nominee said, "The government has no business in the decisions that women make."