The only thing we know for sure about Harris is that she is all in for abortion, and much of the media dutifully report that she’s leading in the polls on that issue.

What is not being reported is that when she and the Democrats raise the abortion issue, they don’t talk about it honestly. They never describe what they defend, and they pretend an act of violence has something to do with freedom.

This year, they have ramped up their efforts to deceive people about state laws that have been enacted after the fall of Roe v. Wade.

Think back to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in March and the woman chosen as a guest of honor by first lady Jill Biden. Kate Cox made news across the nation with her claim that she had to leave her home state of Texas to abort her child, who had been diagnosed in utero with a chromosomal disorder. Biden said during the address that Cox’s life had been in danger.

The truth, of course, was that it was not. Had her life been imperiled, her doctor would have been able to declare Cox needed an abortion under Texas law. Cox and her doctor chose instead to go to court, where the Texas Supreme Court found: “If a doctor … decides that a pregnant woman has such [a dangerous] condition, then the exception applies, and Texas law does not prohibit the abortion. … [Cox’s doctor] did not attest to the court that Ms. Cox’s condition poses the risks the exception requires.”

Biden and his party, including his vice president, knew all this but decided political gain was more important than the truth. When Cox was introduced at the State of the Union, she received thunderous applause for aborting her child, a child whose life did not endanger her own.

Also from Texas this year, we had a much-publicized case that, too, landed in the state’s Supreme Court concerning women who said they were denied life-saving abortions. The named plaintiff, Amanda Zurawski, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August and is now a mouthpiece for Harris.

But as in the Cox case, the court ruled: “Texas law permits a life-saving abortion. Under the Human Life Protection Act, a physician may perform an abortion if, exercising reasonable medical judgment, the physician determines that a woman has a life-threatening physical condition that places her at risk of death or serious physical impairment unless an abortion is performed.”

This is not the message Zurawski and Harris are spreading. At her DNC speech, Zurawski said: “A second Trump term would rip away even more of our rights: passing a national abortion ban, letting states monitor pregnancies and prosecute doctors, restricting birth control and fertility treatments.”

None of that is true.

A more recent lie from the Harris campaign started making the rounds in mid-September, when the news outlet ProPublica, funded by pro-abortion foundations, published stories about the deaths of two women in Georgia following chemical abortions.

This should have been a cautionary tale about the lethal dangers of chemical abortion. Instead, Harris made a quick trip to Atlanta to exploit the tragic deaths for political gain by once again lying to the public.

She focused on just one case, that of Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old mother of a 6-year-old boy. She was beyond the six-week cutoff for abortion in Georgia when she decided to abort her twins, so she traveled to a North Carolina abortion business, where she was sold abortion pills.

Back at home after taking the second drug, she was bleeding heavily and vomiting. Her boyfriend called an ambulance after she passed out. At the hospital, according to ProPublica, doctors did not immediately diagnose sepsis from an incomplete abortion, and by the time they brought her into surgery to remove what was left of her twins, it was too late to save her.

A medical committee that does not share its findings with the public but was cited by ProPublica blamed Georgia’s law protecting babies from abortion once a heartbeat can be detected for Thurman’s death. 

In reality, of course, chemical abortion killed Thurman. But Harris doesn’t let the truth get in her way, so she turned the story into a push to repeal abortion laws in states where they have been enacted. This is nothing short of ironic: She complains about death while pushing abortion, a procedure designed to kill.

Harris is not the only Democrat spreading the lie. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his minions introduced a resolution establishing a “basic right to emergency healthcare, including as it relates to abortions.”

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But pro-life Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) blocked the resolution. The allegation that laws protecting babies from abortion are standing in the way of emergency care for women facing miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and life-threatening situations he labeled “a false claim.”

In other words, a lie.

Abortion is going to be debated in America for a long time to come. Isn’t it time for a more honest debate?

Frank Pavone is the national director of Priests for Life. Alveda King is a senior adviser for Priests for Life.