At least eight infants were born alive after botched abortions in Minnesota on Walz’s watch, none was given life-saving care, reports show.
In summer 2022 as Tim Walz was steaming toward reelection as Minnesota governor, his state health agency published a required abortion-statistics report with little fanfare. In it, though, was a secret that is certain to catapult to national prominence now that Walz has been selected to be Democrat Kamala Harris’s running mate.
In Walz’s state and on his watch, five infants were “born alive” in 2021 during failed abortions, and none was provided life-saving care though two got “comfort care,” the Minnesota Department of Health reported on July 1, 2022.
File: MNAbortionReportJuly2022.pdf
Three other infants were “born alive” during abortions in 2019, Walz’s first year as governor, and they too perished without life-saving care, according to a July 1, 2020 report from the same state agency.
File: MNAbortionReportJuly2020.pdf
Minnesota was the rare state to require such born-alive abortions to be publicly reported, creating a powerful statistic for pro-life and anti-abortion forces to draw upon.
But in 2023, Walz worked with his new Democrat-controlled Legislature to eliminate both the reporting requirement and the state’s legal obligation for doctors, nurses and medical professionals to administer life-saving care to infants born alive during an abortion procedure. The governor-turned-vice presidential nominee signed an omnibus bill known as SF2995 that closed one of the few statistical windows on late-term abortions and the possibility that babies born alive were left to die.
Of all the veep nominees on Vice President Harris’s short list from which she could have chosen, the affable former Army reserve sergeant major and school teacher from Minnesota provided the best opportunity for Donald Trump and his Republican posse to fuel a debate on extremism, experts told Just the News.
Just a few days ago, Walz attended a “White Dudes for Harris” event and made a proclamation likely to offend millions of American immigrants who fled the repression of Marxism, communism and socialism in their homelands.
“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness,” Walz said casually in a video clip certain to remain viral through Election Day.
