Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin Lies About Late Term Abortion in Debate
Baldwin made a patently false statement that late-term abortion does not happen in America.
At the Wisconsin Senate debate earlier this month, Democratic Seantor Tammy Baldwin and her Republican challenger Eric Hovde discussed abortion. Baldwin flat-out lied in her response in which she said, of the notion that babies that have reached viability get aborted, “Eric Hovde, that does not happen in America.”
Turns out, that happens a lot more than radical Tammy Baldwin will ever confess.
In the debate, Hovde stated his position on abortion: “I believe that women should have a right to choose early on in their pregnancy but there comes a point in time when a baby can be born healthy and alive and I think that it’s unconscionable to terminate that child’s life.”
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The phrase, “a baby born healthy and alive,” has a somewhat unclear meaning. A reading charitable toward Hovde would call it a reference to viability, and that he stated his opposition to late-term abortions. Naturally, Baldwin interpreted it in the way most beneficial to her campaign and framed it as her challenger suggesting euthanasia, infanticide, or neglecting medical care: “Eric Hovde, that does not happen in America.” Even if Hovde didn’t mean this, Tammy Baldwin still appears misinformed, ignorant, or deliberately dishonest about the issue. Wisconsin’s neighbors across the Mississippi River show this does happen in America.
From 2015 to 2021, Minnesota reported that 24 babies born alive after an attempted abortion had died. These reports listed specific causes of death for 16 of the infants (aside from the abortion procedure itself, it appears). For the others, official reports used “vaguer language” to describe their cases, such as “comfort care measures were provided as planned” and “no specific steps taken to preserve life were reported.” Without further detail, we can only speculate as to the circumstances these newborns faced outside the womb.
In 2023, Minnesota updated its laws governing medical care for babies born during abortions. The legislature passed, and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed a much more radical requirement for medical care for babies born alive after a botched abortion.
The law originally read, “A live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person, and accorded immediate protection under the law. All reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice, including the compilation of appropriate medical records, shall be taken to preserve the life and health of the child.” The new law replaced the phrasing of the final portion—"shall be taken to preserve the life and health of the child”—with “shall be taken by the responsible medical personnel to care for the infant who is born alive.”
The law downgraded the level of medical care required for abortion-surviving infants.
Tammy Baldwin and Tim Walz, Radical Abortion Partners
Baldwin happens to have hit the campaign trail with the governor who signed that change into law. When JD Vance confronted him at the Vice Presidential debate with the scenario the bill allows the withholding of life-saving care from newborns surviving abortions, Walz called it a distortion of the law. When Vance asked Walz to explain where he erred, Walz insisted it was a misreading of the bill without elaborating why.
Like Tim Walz, Tammy Baldwin ignores anything that challenges the Democratic Party’s radical approval of abortion without any restrictions—including once a baby survives the ghastly procedure.
