Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) was confronted over the weekend for promoting a debunked story about a young woman who died in Georgia after she took an abortion pill.
The exchange happened as Walz, who was also confronted over the extreme positions that he has taken on abortion, appeared on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream.
Bream noted that in Minnesota, Walz signed a bill into law that allowed abortion up until the moment of birth with no restrictions.
Walz deflected by claiming that he and Vice President Kamala Harris want to restore Roe v. Wade.
He also falsely claimed that it’s been “debunked” that the law he signed permits unrestricted abortion.
“What you signed is there’s not a single limit through nine months of pregnancy,” Bream pushed back. “Roe had a trimester framework that did have limits to the pregnancy. The Minnesota law does not have that.”
Walz completely ignored what Bream said and then falsely claimed that Trump was “asking for a nationwide abortion ban.”
The governor then promoted the lie that Georgia’s abortion laws led to the death of Amber Thurman, a young woman who died because she was not treated at the hospital after she became sick following her decision to take an abortion pill.
“To be clear, the Minnesota law is far beyond Roe v Wade,” Bream noted. “And about the Amber Thurman case in Georgia, her family … has said it was a complication from an abortion pill that she received and she didn’t get proper care when she went to a Georgia Hospital, which had multiple opportunities to intervene there.”
“Her own attorney, the family’s attorney, says it wasn’t the Georgia law, it was the hospitals,” Bream continued. “What he claims is malpractice, not treating her when she clearly showed up in distress and still had the byproducts of her pregnancy because of that rare complication from the abortion pill.”
Bream then confronted Walz over his decision to remove language from the law that protected babies who were born alive after an abortion.
“Language that used to be part of the statute was taken out,” she noted. “It used to require medical personnel to, quote, ‘preserve the life and health of the born alive infant’. That language has been repealed. It’s no longer part of the law. Also struck from the law was language about reporting infants that are born alive, what treatment they receive and whether they live or die.”
“Why was it important to you to get that protection out of the law?” she asked.
Walz falsely claimed that the law “aligns with every other case of what physicians are required by their ethical responsibilities.”
He then said that any questions about his extreme abortion views were “a distraction from the real issue here”, which he said was pro-life laws that protect the unborn.
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WATCH: @GovTimWalz on the Harris-Walz campaign’s abortion policy pic.twitter.com/QfOOu2w6oc
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