Fact-checking the Texas governor debate between Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke

Posted on AllSides October 4th, 2022
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Lynda M. Gonzalez, left, and Rose Baca, right/Dallas Morning News
FACT CHECK

Gov. Greg Abbott and challenger Beto O’Rourke clashed over a range of topics Friday night in their sole debate, not always with the facts on their side.

Some fact-checks:

Abortion

Abbott depicted O’Rourke as an extremist on abortion.

“He not only supports abortion of a fully developed child to the very last second before birth” but, said Abbott, he opposes “providing medical care for the baby who survives an abortion. He is for unlimited abortion at taxpayer expense.”

O’Rourke insisted “that’s not true.”

The claim about denying medical care for a...

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