Investigating an abortion tale cited by Ron DeSantis During the Republican primary debate on Aug. 23, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a comment that begged for additional information: "I know a lady in Florida named Penny. She survived multiple abortion attempts. She was left discarded in a pan. Fortunately, her grandmother saved her and brought her to a different hospital." He was referring to a woman called Penny Hopper, who's active in the antiabortion movement and has given many interviews about what she says was her parents' attempt to abort her in 1955 — and in particular the role of the doctor. She says the doctor completed the abortion and ordered her tossed out "dead or alive" after delivery. Reconstructing events that took place nearly 70 years ago is difficult. The doctor and nurses involved have died. Contemporary news accounts are contradictory or may themselves have errors. Hopper relies on what she says are the recollections of others, including her father and two aunts — who are also dead. We dug deep into the newspaper clips and interviewed people who knew the doctor. Our reporting suggests another scenario — that the doctor and staff arranged for her to be rushed to a hospital with a new type of incubator that helped save her life. You can read our full report by clicking this link. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. James Comer makes a nonsense allegation about a Joe Biden email During an interview last week on Newsmax, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, claimed that an assistant to Joe Biden, while he was vice president, sent an email that contained a secret message to his son Hunter that he was about to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor — a move that supposedly would have furthered his son's business interests. Newsmax flashed an image of the email, sent to the vice president to the address of "Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov." The email listed the vice president's schedule for the day, including a planned call with the Ukrainian president, who then was Petro Poroshenko. Hunter Biden was copied on the email. The discovery of this email and Biden's use of the pseudonym Robert L. Peters led Comer to request from the National Archives and Records Administration all unredacted documents and communications in which Biden used a pseudonym while vice president, as well as any emails in which Hunter Biden or his business associates were copied. But there's one big problem with Comer's claim: The email is dated May 26, 2016. The prosecutor in question had been dismissed by the Ukrainian parliament two months earlier. Comer earned Four Pinocchios. Please click the link to read the full fact check We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. We're also on TikTok. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read other abortion fact checks | 
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