Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was put on the defensive during the vice presidential debate Tuesday when asked about his state’s law on babies surviving botched abortions.
Former President Donald Trump said in the last presidential debate in September that Harris’ “vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine.”
Walz was asked about Trump’s statement during Tuesday’s debate.
“The question got asked and Donald Trump made the accusation that wasn’t true about Minnesota,” Walz said.
Later, Vance said, “[a]nd maybe you’re free to disagree with me on this and explain this to me, but as I read the Minnesota law that you signed into into law, the statute that you signed into law, it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives, the doctor is under no obligation to provide life-saving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion.”
Walz pushed back, claiming, “[t]his is a very simple proposition. These are women’s decisions to make about their healthcare decisions, and the physicians who know best when they need to do this. Trying to distort the way a law is written to try and make a point, that’s not it at all.” […]
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