Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has picked her running mate: Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota.
Walz is already drawing on a small-town background to try to appeal to everyday Americans, while joining in on attacks painting Republicans as “weird”:
Voters should not be fooled by “Minnesota nice” stereotypes. Walz is every bit as radical on abortion as the rest of his party.
There is no daylight between Walz and Harris on this issue; together they make up the most pro-abortion presidential ticket America has ever seen.
Before he was governor of Minnesota, Walz spent over a decade in Congress. During that time, he voted in favor of brutal late-term abortions when children in the womb can feel pain. He refused to stop discrimination abortions based on the race or sex of the baby. And he consistently voted for taxpayer-funded abortion. When the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act was introduced in 2015, he voted against protecting babies who survive a failed abortion attempt. When the bill came up for a vote again in 2018, he “accidentally” voted for it, but went out of his way to apologize and correct the record: “It was an honest mistake…I’ll keep fighting for women’s access to health care.”
Via the Daily Wire: While running for governor in 2018, Walz quipped that he is so pro-abortion, even Nancy Pelosi suggested he “tone it down.”
One of Walz’s first actions after the Dobbs decision was to issue an executive order shielding abortionists in the state from prosecution and forbidding state agencies to assist in another state’s investigation, absent a court order.
To be clear, this is not about protecting women – who have been seriously injured or even killed by the hundreds in legal abortions since Roe v. Wade – but about protecting the lucrative abortion business. In a gift to abusers and traffickers, Walz also signed the repeal of state law that required a woman’s “voluntary and informed consent” before any abortion could be carried out in the state. As reported by National Review, “A companion section requiring the state to publish information about support for pregnant women was also repealed.”
Even where coercion is not apparent, women have things to say about how they and their babies are treated by the abortion industry. Consider the following review left for Planned Parenthood’s St. Paul – Vandalia center, which commits surgical abortions right up to the beginning of the third trimester:
As we reported previously in this space, in January 2023, Walz signed the “PRO Act” – an extreme law enshrining abortion on demand throughout pregnancy as a “fundamental right” without limits of any kind.
The law consistently applies this “right” to “an individual,” without any age limits. Debate on the bill in the state Senate was marked by Democrats rejecting more than 60 Republican amendments to stop partial-birth abortions, painful dismemberment abortions, sex-selection abortions, and discriminatory abortions when an unborn child is thought to have Down syndrome; require parental notification before an abortion for minor girls; and more.
Walz then signed further legislation grossly expanding taxpayer-funded abortion, stripping away the state’s informed consent protections, and significantly weakening protections for babies born alive.
In 2017, a woman (whose identity was protected) came forward to allege that Planned Parenthood in St. Paul told her, “We don’t tell women this, and a lot of women don’t even ask this question, but if [the doctor] was to proceed with the abortion and the baby was to come out still alive and active, most likely we would break the baby’s neck.”
When Kamala Harris campaigned at a Planned Parenthood facility in Minnesota earlier this year, Walz was at her side. In an interview in March, he sermonized that “old white men” need to listen to women on the abortion issue.
A few burning questions come to mind: Does Walz agree with Pete Buttigieg, speaking on the now-infamous “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom call, that having abortion on demand means that “men are also more free”? Do the women who deserve to be listened to, according to the Democrats, include women pressured or coerced into abortions against their will – women that Walz stripped of protections in Minnesota?
A recent interview sheds light on more of Walz’s campaign themes:
If Democrats want to see what their party governing would look like, Minnesota is the example. But maybe the policies would be too liberal for the national stage, one TV interviewer posed to Walz.
“What a monster! Kids are eating and having full bellies so they can go learn and women are making their own healthcare decisions,” Walz said jokingly.
It is a bizarre stance. It is true that children who are aborted never have the opportunity to feel hunger. They also never have the opportunity to feel happiness, love, sunshine on their faces, the breeze in their hair – or anything else for that matter, after what science tells us is an extremely painful manner of death.
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser weighed in on the choice of Walz:
With Harris and Walz as standard-bearers, the Democratic Party has become the ‘Shout Your Abortion’ party, with no limits for any reason even in the seventh, eighth or ninth month. In contrast to President Trump, JD Vance and the GOP, who support the right of the people to set limits on abortion and provide real options for mothers in need, Democrats have made it clear nothing – not the checks and balances built into our government, not the humanity of unborn children and not the true needs of women – will stop them from imposing all-trimester abortion nationwide.
The pro-life movement must fully engage to defeat the Harris-Walz extreme abortion agenda in November. Our team is working tirelessly to reach 10 million voters, with four million visits to the homes of voters in key battleground states.
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, our movement was given a historic opportunity. But the battle for life became much more difficult.
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