The Harris-Walz campaign has not been shy in its push for abortion. It has been a major emphasis for the ticket this election cycle, with both Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz openly supporting abortion with no limits. According to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, the Left, including the Harris-Walz campaign, have continuously told “deceptive, incomplete, [and] sometimes flat-out false narratives to give lift to Kamala Harris’s talking point on what she calls ‘Trump’s abortion bans,’ which are the pro-life laws of states.”

On Thursday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” Dr. Donna Harrison, board-certified OB-GYN and director of Research for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, joined host Perkins to discuss the truth behind the “lies” coming from pro-abortion activists on the Left, drawing special attention to the story of a woman in Texas whom abortion activists “claim died after doctors said it would be a crime to intervene in her miscarriage.” The story was published by ProPublica on Wednesday. But as Perkins asked, could it be that this is “just another case of a woman dying because of the Left’s lies and not pro-life laws?”

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As Harrison pointed out about this case in Texas, “A lot of what we know is just what’s reported in the media.” However, “what I can say is … that pro-life doctors for 40 years before Dobbs have separated moms and babies when the mom’s life is at stake. And that isn’t anything” new. It’s “part of the tragedy” of caring for “any mom that is sick” with an “infection [and] needs to be separated from her baby,” she emphasized — “even if that baby can’t live.” But being able to discern when to make that decision is “just part of … good medical care.” It “has nothing to do with pro-life laws,” Harrison underscored, and “nothing to do with abortion regulations.”

“[A] mother is the first patient, is she not?” Perkins added. And while she’s not the only patient, doctors “are always going to work to help that mother in her medical condition.” Harrison agreed. “The mother is our patient. The child is our patient.” But the reality is, “There are … situations that are life-threatening that will save the mom’s life even though the baby dies.” And yet, even in those cases, Harrison contended that they’re still not considered abortions.

Harrison went on to explain how “the confusion about what an abortion is” often remains at the center of this debate pertaining to the treatment of miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. “An abortion,” the doctor clarified, “is a procedure that’s done for the purpose and intent of producing a dead baby.” She further clarified that in an instance where a mother’s life is at risk, and the baby does not survive, that is not an abortion because “the purpose [was] not to produce a dead baby.” Again, Harrison stated, “The purpose of an abortion is to produce a dead baby.”

She went on to illustrate this further: “If there’s an abortion going on at 32 weeks and the baby lives, what do you call that? That’s a failed abortion. Why? [Because] the baby failed to die. The baby didn’t fail to separate. The baby failed to die.” As such, “it’s very clear that the purpose of an induced abortion … an elective abortion, is to produce a dead baby, not to save a mother’s life. That’s a completely different purpose.”

And now, Perkins argued, in addition to the harmful nature of abortion, “women’s lives [are] being endangered by these false narratives that are being told by political leaders like Walz and Harris.” In fact, he contended, “what I take away from statements they have made” is that they want “no limits” on abortion.

“Well, that’s exactly right,” Harrison replied. “[T]here are women that are dying from chemical abortions in states that have no pro-life restrictions. It’s not an issue of regulating abortion causing women to die. It’s an issue of women [who] deserve excellent medical care, and they deserve medical care that treats both them and their child as patients.” This, Harrison stressed, is “what we do as OB-GYN’s.”

“But when you become fixated on abortion [and] the ending of life,” Perkins concluded, “it’s hard to provide good health care and saving lives. I mean, that [abortion] becomes their top priority [is] astounding.”

LifeNews Note: Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand, where this originally appeared.