By S.A. McCarthy
The Washington Stand
With just days to go before the election, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is doubling down on pro-abortion rhetoric and signaling support for late-term abortions.
In a Wednesday appearance on CBS News, Walz was asked if he and Vice President Kamala Harris would support “any limits on abortion, including limiting third-trimester abortions.” The Democratic governor replied, “Look, the vice president’s been very clear, making sure that we restore the right of Roe v. Wade, making sure that women and their health care providers — because these services are health care — making sure those decisions are made in the best interests of the health of the mother.”
“So, for 52 years, we were very clear on where things were at. Donald Trump gleefully talks about the beautiful thing that he’s done, which means women having miscarriages in parking lots,” Walz said, repeating the claim that pro-life state laws have been harmful to women. He continued, “I’m down here and was in Georgia yesterday where Amber Thurman died, and it was totally preventable had we not had a Donald Trump abortion ban. So, we’ve been clear about that. Restoration of Roe, that’s what we’re looking for.”
Numerous doctors and medical professionals have already debunked the claim made by Harris, Walz, and other Democrats that Thurman and other women died because pro-life laws prevented them from receiving necessary medical treatment. “No pro-life law in the country prevents OB/GYNs like me from intervening when a woman is facing a potentially life-threatening complication of her pregnancy. They do not have to be knocking on death’s door before we can intervene,” explained Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs.
Dr. Ingrid Skop, a board-certified OB/GYN and the Charlotte Lozier Institute’s vice president of Medical Affairs, observed that women are actually dying due to a form sepsis developed through use of abortion drugs. Skop noted that pro-abortion advocates, including Harris, have “misinformed the American public” and “intentionally stirred up confusion and fear-mongering among doctors” by misrepresenting the provisions of pro-life state laws.
In comments to The Washington Stand, Mary Szoch, director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, said, “Tim Walz and Kamala Harris have made themselves abundantly clear multiple times — they believe there is nothing wrong with killing a completely viable unborn baby minutes before she’s born. Neither of them has ever been able to point to a single instance where they think there should be any consideration whatsoever for the life of the unborn child. Instead, they spread the lie that abortion and miscarriage are the same thing (they’re not) and that laws protecting unborn children somehow endanger their mothers (they don’t).”
Szoch continued, “In spreading their lies, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are making it more difficult for women who miscarry to get actual treatment. But this shouldn’t shock anyone — the Harris-Walz ticket has no problem killing babies right before birth, and no problem with women — who just lost a very much loved unborn baby — dying because of poor medical treatment. What a tragedy. For Christians, the choice between Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance is clear. No one can in good conscience vote for Harris/Walz and the culture of death that they stand for.”
In his Wednesday appearance on CBS News, Walz was also asked, “Should there be a federal third-trimester abortion ban?” The governor answered, “Roe was very clear on what they did. We want the restoration of Roe, and that’s the position we’re taking.”
In September’s presidential debate between Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the vice president claimed that third-trimester and late-term abortions do not happen. “Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion. That is not happening,” Harris said. However, 21 states allow abortion up until birth, including Minnesota, where Walz himself signed a law legalizing abortion up until birth and removing a reporting requirement that would have tracked how many babies survive an abortion and are left to die. Prior to his removal of the reporting requirements, at least eight children survived abortions and were left to die in Walz’s Minnesota.
Even the left-leaning Washington Post “fact-checked” Harris’s late-term abortion claim. “Democrats bent on restoring abortion rights would have us believe that no state would allow a fully formed baby to be aborted, and it is rational to believe this. But such is not always the case,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kathleen Parker wrote, citing the example of a Colorado abortionist who has been specializing in committing late-term abortions for decades. “So, yes, Madam Vice President, late-term abortions are happening and not just for anomalies or medical reasons.”
In a statement emailed to TWS, Emily Davis, vice president of Communications at SBA Pro-Life America, remarked, “While it’s shocking that some struggle to name any limits on late-term abortions when babies can see, hear, suck their thumbs, and feel pain, it shouldn’t be entirely unexpected coming from Tim Walz.”
Davis continued, “Thanks to Tim Walz, Minnesota is currently one of the seven states in this country that allow abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason. His law is so radical, he even stripped parental consent, so a minor can get an abortion without their parents ever knowing. Under his watch,at least eight babies have survived abortions and died without medical care in Minnesota. And we may never know how many more, because Walz not only eliminated the duty to provide life-saving care, but he also removed reporting requirements.”
“With a Harris-Walz White House and a Democrat-controlled House and Senate, it is clear what we’ll get: painful late-term abortions through the ninth month paid for by taxpayers, shutting down pregnancy centers that offer a crucial lifeline to women, and more peaceful pro-life advocates in jail,” Davis concluded.
Originally published at The Washington Stand!
