“I dare Hillary Clinton [and] Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully-formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’ This is about the character of our nation.” A host of media outlets, as well as Planned Parenthood, went to great lengths to explain that Mrs. Fiorina was making things up.

One of the biggest moments in this second GOP debate was Carly Fiorina deftly taking control of the exchange and pointing it toward the macabre activities at Planned Parenthood—and how the top two leaders of the Democratic party are quite content to defend Planned Parenthood and let them go about their grisly business. She said, with great seriousness and passion:

 I dare Hillary Clinton [and] Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully-formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’ This is about the character of our nation.

A host of media outlets, as well as Planned Parenthood, went to great lengths to explain that Mrs. Fiorina was making things up.

Planned Parenthood quickly released memo claiming she’s liar:

 The images show nothing like what Carly Fiorina said they do, and they have nothing to do with Planned Parenthood. The video footage that she claims exists—and that she ‘dared’ people to watch—does not exist. We have a word for that: It’s a lie.

Politico’s Rachana Pradhan was quick on the draw to “fact-check” Carly’s statement, also concluding she was wrong:

 The videos that have stirred up so much trouble for Planned Parenthood don’t show what Fiorina claims. […]In one video, a former employee of the fetal tissue procurement company StemExpress[…]alleges that she saw an aborted fetus’ heart beat after a clinician tapped its heart. That video relies solely on the interview and does not include footage to support her claims. [But]…at no point do they include footage of an entire aborted fetus….

Here is where each point she made is shown. You be the judge as to who got it right.

1.”Watch a fully-formed fetus on the table” (see 5:59)

2.”…its heart beating, its legs kicking” (see 5:37 – 6:10)

3.”…while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’” (see 6:07 – 6:49)

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