Director of the White House Gender Policy Council Jennifer Klein smacked down false claims from ex-President Donald Trump about President Joe Biden’s positions on abortion rights.

Trump and other Republicans have spent years telling the lie that Democrats favor the legalized killings of infants after they’re born, loosely based on then-Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D-VA) comments about medical decisions in catastrophic cases. They’ve also claimed Democrats support abortion right up until the “moment of birth.”

At a Zoom briefing on the anniversary of the Dobbs decision — and days before the earliest general election presidential debate ever — Mediaite asked Klein how President Biden will respond to those attacks:

TOMMY CHRISTOPHER – MEDIAITE: Yeah, I have a question. It’s sort of a dual question. There have been a pair of false attacks on abortion that I’d like you to respond to.

The one, first one is the one that Donald Trump keeps saying that Democrats believe in, aborting the child after birth — murdering children after they’re born. Based on something Ralph Northam said a few years ago.

And then there’s another one where they say Democrats support abortion up to, the ninth month because there’s no specific number of weeks in the viability framework.

So I’m wondering how the president can respond to simply and clearly to both of those attacks.

JENNIFER KLEIN: Thank you. First and foremost, the president and the vice president do not support abortion up until the time of birth.

Nor do they support abortion after birth. In fact, that’s not abortion!

Second of all, you know, both the president, the vice president, this entire administration has been quite clear and unequivocal that we support restoring the protections of Roe in federal law, and we’re not proposing something new.

Roe protected women’s health and safety for nearly 50 years. And again, the president has been quite clear that a federal law is the only way to ensure reproductive rights for every woman, woman in every state.

And I think the rhetoric that you pointed to is really a blatant effort to distract from the extremist agenda and the ultimate goal of enacting a national abortion ban.

And again, the president and vice president have been clear and unequivocal that what they support is restoring the protections of Roe in federal law.

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