‘There is no ban’: Republicans test-drive new abortion messaging

Ad released in Virginia part of well-funded effort to portray Democrats as abortion extremists and Republicans as reasonable compromisers

The ad opens with the sound of a fetal heartbeat.

Most people believe that abortion at the moment of birth is wrong, far beyond any reasonable limit. Not Virginia Democrats," a female narrator says, just before the sound of a baby cooing and crying. They fought to make late-term abortions the rule, not the exception."