A key component of that strategy: painting Democrats as radical baby-killers. Democrats argued that the measure was an “unjustified attack” on abortion rights, an overbroad effort to curtail doctors’ rights. But top Republicans used the bill’s broad, innocuous-sounding language to label Democrats as out of step with most Americans on the issue. “We went from that to a Democratic party that stood in favor of partial-birth abortion as a matter of principle. It’s been THREE WEEKS since we learned of Democrat Ralph Northam’s radical support for after-birth abortion and his racist yearbook photos.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2019 22:52 UTC