Claim: “Trump wants to create a new government agency to monitor every pregnancy to enforce abortion bans.”
Verdict: False. This is a lie that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have repeated despite multiple fact-checks.
“We're not going to let the president down,” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said at a rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on Tuesday. repetition Vice President Kamala Harris claimed at the Democratic National Convention and during the presidential debates that former President Donald Trump wanted to create pregnancy “monitors” or “coordinators” to enforce abortion bans.
The claim is Apparently This was part of Walz's street speeches, which he repeated at various opportunities across the country.
Trump has never said such a thing, and the allegation has been published in Breitbart and elsewhere. USA Today.
Breitbart News speculates that the claim is based on a misreading of Project 2025, which is not President Trump's policy and does not even call for abortion “monitors” or “moderators,” but rather calls for the collection of more data on pregnancy.
USA TodayIn May, he made similar claims on social media. Identified The rumor originated from a social media post by the left-wing group Occupy Democrats, which often spreads fake news with virtual impunity. time It is a magazine. USA Today observation:
Trump told Time magazine that potential abortion policies, including monitoring women's pregnancies, should be left to the discretion of individual states, without strongly advocating for monitoring or even saying whether he supports or opposes the idea.
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The Time article, reflecting a transcript of the interview, said Trump “would force Republican states to monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate their anti-abortion laws,” but did not say that the former president advocated for a federal pregnancy monitoring program.
USA Today He also noted that Occupy Democrats had quoted Laurence Tribe, a radical professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and a close aide to the Democratic Party.
Tlaib argued that her description of Trump's policies was “a fair portrayal of what he expects from women on this issue,” without providing evidence that Trump has actually adopted such policies. USA Today He disagreed with Tlaib and called his claims, and those of Occupy Democrats, false.
The left-leaning fact-checking site Snopes.com Fact-checked Regarding the “Monitor” allegations, he denied them, citing Tribe (emphasis in original):
this is, Feature-length Feature The article, published in the May 2024 issue of Time magazine, misrepresented what the former president actually said. In fact, Trump said he would leave the issue of abortion up to the states. Tribe did not immediately respond to Snopes' request for comment.
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More precisely, Trump told Time magazine that as president, he would not block states from passing and enacting laws that would establish systems for monitoring people's pregnancies.
Trump didn't say that actively impose In enacting such legislation, the allegation that Trump said he would pass federal legislation requiring pregnant people to have “ongoing government surveillance” to prevent abortions was “false.”
Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz are not just Breitbart News. USA Todayand Snopes.
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