October 9, 2024
It’s always nice to see the media catch up with the Pro-Life Generation’s grasp on abortion facts . This week, there have been numerous articles and op-eds penned in the pages of mainstream media outlets confirming what Students for Life Action (SFLAction) has been writing about for months now: late-term abortion is real, and Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are lying when they say it isn’t.
First up, at CNN: “In a Sunday interview on Fox News, Walz was asked about Minnesota’s abortion law. After discussing that subject, he pivoted to Trump, the Republican presidential nominee. He said: “Donald Trump’s asking for a nationwide abortion ban.”
Facts First: Walz’s claim is false. Trump is not “asking for” a nationwide abortion ban. Trump has said since the spring that he wants abortion policy to be set by each individual state, not set by the federal government for the whole country. Trump also promised last week to veto any federal abortion ban that Congress passed.”
We’ve covered this before, and though Trump doesn’t believe abortion is a federal issue and has argued it’s a states rights issue (we disagree), we have some thoughts on action he can take as President.
Next, at The Hill: “Minnesota is so lax on abortion, in fact, that some journalists assumed Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance must have been lying last week when he said abortion specialists in the state are not required to render life-saving aid to children who survive botched abortions. But Vance is right.
Under the leadership of Kamala Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D), Minnesota’s laws regarding the care of born-alive infants have been repealed or re-written with vague language that no longer explicitly includes such a requirement. Member of the press simply haven’t bothered to check their facts.”
Again, true. As governor, Walz signed one of the most radical abortion laws into existence, even removing reporting mechanisms for abortion survivors who are then left to die.
Lastly, at the Wall Street Journal: “The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is running variations of this Handmaid’s Tale fiction, with ads accusing House Republican candidates of wanting to “allow state governments to track pregnant women to prosecute them if they get an abortion.”
The alleged source for this claim is the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy paper, which hasn’t been adopted by the GOP as a party and Mr. Trump has disavowed many times. But even Project 2025 doesn’t propose such a registry. Its hardly radical idea is for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand its collection of anonymous state statistics about abortions and miscarriages.”
It may surprise you to learn this, but America has no reliable reporting mechanism for abortions. In fact, some states don’t even track who gets abortions inside their state lines – like California, one of America’s most populous states. As a result, the abortion data we do get from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) and The Guttmacher Institute are woefully incomplete.
But even so, no one is advocating for pregnancy surveillance or period checkpoints – those ideas are best left in the pages of poorly written fiction from Canadian feminist authors. Besides, real tyranny is pointed towards the pro-life movement.
SFLAction has talked extensively about the abortion extremism of The Democrats, and below is a full list of the articles written about the Harris-Walz’ tickets pro-abortion extremism; the most radical for any modern Presidential ticket:
We hope the mainstream media reports the truth before reporting fiction, but we’ll take what we can get.