Reality Check: Trump on Clinton allowing abortions 'in the 9th month, on the final day'

By Ben Tinker, CNN
Updated 1306 GMT (2106 HKT) October 20, 2016

(CNN) - Donald Trump claimed Wednesday night that Hillary Clinton would allow abortions so late doctors could "rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby."

"Now, you can say that that's OK, and Hillary can say that that's OK, but it's not OK with me," Trump said in the third and final presidential debate. "Because based on what she is saying, and based on where she's going and where she's been, you can take a baby and rip the baby out of the womb. In the ninth month, on the final day and that's not acceptable."

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Roe v. Wade, decided by the Supreme Court in 1973, made abortions legal during the entire term of a pregnancy, but put restrictions on the procedure during the second and third trimesters.

Clinton does believe mothers should be allowed to terminate a pregnancy at any point -- up until birth -- if her life is in danger, but abortions as late in a pregnancy as Trump suggests are almost unheard of.

We therefore rate Trump's claim as true, but misleading.

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