Posted on 01/09/2024 4:32:26 PM PST by Morgana
Abortions are already legal up to birth in Minnesota, but Minnesota Governor Tim Walz wants a constitutional amendment to make it a state right to kill babies in abortions.
Walz defended the call for a pro-abortion amendment by calling abortion health care, even though legitimate health care doesn’t kill patients.
“These are people’s lives, and health care decisions that need to be made by them and their health care providers,” Walz said.
But a representative of a leading pro-life group says pro-life residents of the state would fight such an amendment, because the constitutional should recognize the right to life of all people before and after birth.
“(It) is not what Minnesotans want to be known for. They don’t want to be known as an abortion mecca,” Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life’s Cathy Blaeser said.
Such an amendment would have to be approved by the state legislature and then go before voters. With Minnesota’s status as one of the most pro-abortion states in the nation, that is a very likely possibility.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson called the potential amendment a “blatant effort to exploit a divisive issue for political gain.”
Last year, Walz signed a bill into law that will legalize abortions up to birth.
Walz signed into law the Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act to enshrine in state statute a “fundamental right” to abortion without limits or safeguards. The bill had passed the House and Senate by narrow margins after Democrat leaders quickly pushed it through the legislature in the opening weeks of the session.
Authored by Rep. Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn, D-Eden Prairie, the bill would allow abortion on demand even late in pregnancy when unborn babies are viable and can feel excruciating pain. The bill also would also deny parents the right to know if their minor daughter is seeking an abortion.
“The PRO Act means a right to abort any baby for any reason at any time up to birth. It means that the elective killing of a human being in utero is perfectly legal even in the third trimester of pregnancy, when the child can feel excruciating pain and could live outside the womb. It means that parents have no right to know when their teenage daughter has been taken to undergo an abortion,” said MCCL Co-Executive Director Cathy Blaeser. “Gov. Walz’s absolutist abortion policy puts Minnesota in the company of just a small handful of countries around the world, including North Korea and China. It is extreme, inhumane, and harmful to women and children who deserve so much better.”
Polls show that most Minnesotans and most Americans disagree with the no-limits policy enshrined by the PRO Act. A 2022 KSTP/SurveyUSA poll found that only 30 percent of Minnesotans think abortion should always be legal.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz needs to be aborted, postpartum. How freaking evil can a “human being” become?
Basically this is the entire reason for the banning of abortion altogether no matter what the situation. This can be used for recretional sex cleanup exactly like the morning after pill.
There can possibly times when an abortion might be considered like rape, incest, morbility possiblity of the mother or child, or a child dead in the womb. But it shouldn’t ever be because I can. That makes the slope completely slippery.
wy69
only 30 percent of Minnesotans think abortion should always be legal”
Yet it is legal to kill a 9 month old baby there.
The emotions over abortion never cease to amaze me but the Supreme Court gave the states in this country a “Pro-Choice” abortion ruling.
The states have a choice to go liberal on abortion or conservative on abortion protect the unborn or butcher the unborn.
Governor Walz has offered us his “vision” for the State of Minnesota.
My Mother was a very devout Roman Catholic. I remember talking to her one time about abortion and I asked her: “If you knew that by delivering me as your baby you were going to die during the delivery would you have done it?” She said “Yes”.
My dear friend is one of identical twins. During pregnancy, the doc told the babies’ mother they had to be aborted or she would die. No doubt about it. She made the decision to carry them full term if possible, and take her chances.
The girls and the mother were/are fine.
What is the difference between Tim Walz and Hamas? I have no idea.
“She said “Yes”.
Some women do not. And there is no right or wrong on the answer. Someone is going to die in that case. Depends on if the woman wishes to trade for the child. And not all children are born healthy. So how do you make that decision? In your mom’s case, it is possible that her being the religion she was at the time might have had a part in her decision as Catholics to my knowledge have been stringent opponents of abortion and birth control.
wy69
“She said “Yes”.
Some women do not. And there is no right or wrong on the answer. Someone is going to die in that case. Depends on if the woman wishes to trade for the child. And not all children are born healthy. So how do you make that decision? In your mom’s case, it is possible that her being the religion she was at the time might have had a part in her decision as Catholics to my knowledge have been stringent opponents of abortion and birth control.
wy69
Minnesota is already an abortion Auschwitz thanks to Walz
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