Bills that would allow babies to be killed after birth are "pure evil" and the nation's lawmakers should be able to come together to protect newborns, Rep. Liz Cheney said Thursday.
"The fact that we're even debating it is so appalling," the Wyoming Republican told Fox News' "Fox and Friends," a day after saying in a press release that Democrats would turn maternity wards into "killing fields."
"As a mother of five babies, you realize how precious every human life is," said Cheney. "When you look at the language in these bills in New York and Virginia in particular and look at the incentives in those bills and look at the regulations that are lifted, the extent to which abortion would be unregulated outside of hospitals, that benefits Planned Parenthood. Those bills may not say Planned Parenthood, but they are very much targeted to benefiting Planned Parenthood."
She also said she was stunned by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's "cold, clinical description of killing a baby essentially after the baby is born."
"The idea that we have to debate whether or not we are going to kill babies after they are born is just, there is no other word for it besides despicable evil," Cheney said. "It is just an appalling situation and I certainly hope that the mothers on both sides of the aisle, the women on both sides of the aisle, that all of us as Americans will come together to say this should never happen."
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