“Senator, senator, I just want to say, we brought you here, gave you an hour, we’re treating you fairly,” he said. Wallace cut Gillibrand off in the midst of her comments. (After multiple states moved to protect abortion rights - and specifically, third-term abortion rights - earlier this year, Fox News attempted to drum up panic that Democratic lawmakers had legalized “infanticide.” In reality, later abortions are typically medically necessary, and also extremely rare: Only one percent of procedures take place after the 20-week mark.)

Then, she directed her response to Wallace and Fox News, criticizing the network for pushing a “false narrative” around abortion rights and partaking in disingenuous handwringing over infanticide. On Sunday evening, a retired neonatal nurse asked Gillibrand to explain her stance on later abortions Gillibrand responded that it should always be up to a woman to make the “life-and-death” decisions about when - and if - she wants to have children.

Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP/REX/Shutterstockĭuring her live Fox News town hall, Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand slammed the network’s distorted abortion coverage, over anchor Chris Wallace’s protests that it was impolite of her to do so.

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