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.
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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.
