Rep. Alma Adams, a Democrat from Greensboro, has been moonlighting as an investigative journalist/fact-checker. Or at least, she’s been listening to people who do.

Shortly after the House voted 71-48 to pass House Bill 854, informed-consent for an abortion, Adams circulated a letter among lawmakers challenging a story Rep. Pat McElraft, R-Carteret, told on the floor. In that story, McElraft recounted how a relative and his girlfriend had sought an abortion and were misinformed about fetal defects.

From the News & Observer:

“She went to Planned Parenthood, asked them what her choices were,” said McElraft, an Emerald Isle Republican. “They told her she would have a deformed baby because of her drug use, her only option was abortion. …

“He went with her to what she describes as a very dark house. In that very dark house, a nurse attended to her. My nephew asked the nurse if she could at least see the ultrasound. The nurse said, ‘I can’t do that, I’ll get fired.'”

Eventually, the nurse showed the couple the screen.

“It was a perfectly formed, little human baby,” McElraft said. “They had lied to her about how far along she was. They had lied to her about the deformity of that baby. She left there immediately.”

The couple married and that fetus is now a teenager, McElraft said.

Adams then sent her letter:

“Adams, a Greensboro Democrat, said Thursday that McElraft wasn’t completely truthful about the role Planned Parenthood played in her family story.

In a letter to fellow House members, Adams wrote that McElraft failed to disclose that the incident took place in Georgia, not North Carolina. And the “dark house” where the couple went for an abortion was not a Planned Parenthood facility.

“In fact, her niece and nephew went to a Planned Parenthood in Augusta,” Adams wrote. “Since they did not provide abortion care at that time, they referred her to another provider, not affiliated with Planned Parenthood in Atlanta.”

So, Planned Parenthood didn’t own the abortion facility, but it endorsed the abortion facility? Wow. What a difference in search of a distinction.