Dozens of Minnesota Babies Died After Surviving Botched Abortions. Walz Signed the Bill to Hide Their Deaths from the Public. Now He’s Lying About It
Minnesota has the nation’s most radical abortion law—and Tim Walz took it even further.
Minnesota is where infants go to die, thanks to Tim Walz’s fanatical pro-abortion policies. So why did he lie about it at last night’s vice presidential debate?
In May 2023, Gov. Walz (D) signed a bill that drops a requirement for doctors to attempt to save the life of an infant who survives an attempted abortion, allowing abortion practitioners to let babies die on the operating table. The original 1976 law required “responsible medical personnel” to use “all reasonable measures . . . [to] preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.”
Walz’s bill dropped the word “preserve,” replacing it with “to care for the infant who is born alive.”
At least 24 babies were born alive after failed abortions between 2015 and 2021, according to a 2015 law that required these statistics be reported to the Minnesota Department of Health. All of them died. For one baby born alive in 2017, “no specific steps were taken to preserve [his or her] life.”
Walz’s bill undid that requirement to report the deaths of aborted babies in the second trimester (20-weeks or older)—when babies learn to swallow, grow hair and fingernails, and can hear the mother’s voice—and also cut funding to pro-life pregnancy centers.
Without that reporting requirement, no one knows how many infants have since survived failed abortions and been killed by doctors.
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When Sen. J.D. Vance (R–OH), President Trump’s running mate, pointed that fact out at the debate, Walz shook his head and lied, “That’s not true.”
“As I read the Minnesota law which you signed into law . . . it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives, that doctor is under no obligation to provide life-saving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion,” Vance said. “That is fundamentally barbaric.”
“This is a very simple proposition,” Walz fired back. “These are women’s decisions to make about their healthcare decisions, and the physicians who know best when they need to do this.” He then accused Vance of “trying to distort the way a law is written.”
“What was I wrong about, Governor?” Vance replied.
“That is not the way the law is written,” Walz claimed.
“How?” Vance pressed.
Walz, dodging the question: “I use this line on this [issue], ‘Just mind your own business.’”
Both Walz and Kamala Harris have tried to frame late-term abortion laws passed by Democrats as a “restoration” of Roe v. Wade, which limited abortion to viability (24–28 weeks), while quietly pressing for abortions into the third trimester. In 2019, Virginia’s then-Gov. Ralph Northam (D), a former pediatrician, infamously floated the idea of aborting babies after they’re born, saying:
[Third trimester abortions are] done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s nonviable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
This isn’t legal in Virginia, but it is legal in Minnesota—thanks to Tim Walz. And Walz is proud of it. So why is he lying to the American people?
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