AP FACT CHECK: Pence says Trump misspoke on abortion

WASHINGTON — TIM KAINE: “We do not think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should for making the decision to have an abortion….That is the fundamental difference between a Clinton-Kaine ticket and a Trump-Pence ticket that wants to punish women.”

MIKE PENCE: “It’s really not. Donald Trump and I would never support legislation that punished women who made the heartbreaking choice to end a pregnancy.”

Pence told Kaine that Trump “is not a polished politician like you and Hillary Clinton. Things don’t always come out the way he means them.”

THE FACTS: Trump said earlier this year that there should be “some form of punishment” for women who get abortions if the procedure is outlawed.