Fact-checking check: PolitiFact's sleight-of-hand on late-term abortion

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Focus on the Family ran ads celebrating the ruling and accusing multiple states of allowing late-term abortion “even up to the moment before birth.” Fact-checkers at PolitiFact looked at the ads and declared them to be “Mostly False.”

However, the facts tell a different story — and reveal a trick in the publication’s fact-check game. That is our topic for this edition of Fact Check Check™. …

This fact check is wrong – and dishonest. PolitiFact’s fact-checkers admitted that the six states cited by Focus on the Family “do not explicitly prohibit an abortion from being performed at any stage of pregnancy” — which was Focus on the Family’s point. However, PolitiFact called the ads false anyway. Then they compounded their error by “fact-checking” something Focus on the Family never claimed.