Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Signs Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth

[excalibur]

There is no compromise with evil and what has been done by the Democrats in Minnesota is evil. Mae no mistake about what they have done.

​

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has 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.​

​

During the House and Senate floor debates, bare majorities rejected dozens of amendments that would have made the bill less extreme. The defeated amendments included ones to protect unborn children in the third trimester (with exceptions), to protect against the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion, to provide the option of anesthesia when unborn children can feel pain, and to protect women’s health by requiring that third-trimester abortions take place in a hospital and that abortion facilities be licensed by the state.​

​

Proponents of the PRO Act sought to downplay the reality and frequency of elective late abortions, even though evidence shows that most abortions after 21 weeks occur for elective reasons. “This law doesn’t just allow late abortion for medical emergencies or hard cases,” said Blaeser. “It allows late abortion for any reason whatsoever, and it’s an open invitation to notorious late abortion practitioners to come to Minnesota to set up shop. Here in Minnesota, you don’t even need to be a doctor or have a licensed facility in order to perform abortions. The lack of guardrails to protect women and children is appalling.”​

​

Dyuring [sic] the debate, Minnesota Catholic bishops opposed the bill. They reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to protect all human life, including babies in the womb.​

​

“In a post-Dobbs world in which states that allow abortion have the responsibility to both regulate the practice and protect nascent human life, we should be working to find common ground on the challenges before us in Minnesota,” the bishops said. “We stand firm that every child should be welcomed in life and protected by law.”​

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has 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...

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[petro]

Maybe if less liberals are born, this state will finally go red.

Not condemning it yet.

 

[Moonglow]

The Pro Act protects Minnesotans' right to contraception, the right to carry a pregnancy to term, and the right to abortion. It also guarantees the right to privacy for personal reproductive health decisions.43 mins ago

Making it official, Gov. Tim Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options Act into law today​

https://www.keyc.com › 2023/02/01 › making-it-official-...



2.4
A bill for an act
relating to health; establishing a fundamental right to reproductive health; proposing
coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 145.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.​

[145.409] REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS.​

Subdivision 1.​

Short title.​

This section may be cited as the "Protect Reproductive Options
Act."

Subd. 2.​

Definition.​

For purposes of this section, "reproductive health care" means
health care offered, arranged, or furnished for the purpose of preventing pregnancy,
terminating a pregnancy, managing pregnancy loss, or improving maternal health and birth
outcomes. Reproductive health care includes, but is not limited to, contraception; sterilization;
preconception care; maternity care; abortion care; family planning and fertility services;
and counseling regarding reproductive health care.

Subd. 3.​

Reproductive freedom.​

(a) Every individual has a fundamental right to make
autonomous decisions about the individual's own reproductive health, including the
fundamental right to use or refuse reproductive health care.
(b) Every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to continue the
pregnancy and give birth, or obtain an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about
how to exercise this fundamental right.

Subd. 4.​

Right to reproductive freedom recognized.​

The Minnesota Constitution
establishes the principles of individual liberty, personal privacy, and equality. Such principles
ensure the fundamental right to reproductive freedom.

Subd. 5.​

Local unit of government limitation.​

A local unit of government may not
regulate an individual's ability to freely exercise the fundamental rights set forth in this
section in a manner that is more restrictive than that set forth in this section.

EFFECTIVE DATE.​

This section is effective the day following final enactment.

 

[Moonglow]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed a bill into law that will legalize abortions up to birth.​

(a) No abortion shall be performed in this state except with the voluntary ... (iv) for abortions after 20 weeks gestational, whether or not an anesthetic ...

Sec. 145.4242 MN Statutes​

MN Revisor's Office › statutes › cite


What is the cutoff for abortions in Minnesota?


between weeks 24 and 28

Only Iowa successfully passed such a bill, but it was struck down by the courts. As of May 14, 2019, the state prohibited abortions after the fetus was viable, generally some point between weeks 24 and 28 in gestation. This period was defined by the US Supreme Court in their landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade.

Abortion in Minnesota - Wikipedia​

 

[whitehall]

If Minnesota wants to be known as the baby killing capital of the Country and women flock to the state to have their babies killed and the voters support the outrage that's democracy in action.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Thank You Governor Walz.
Fewer Minnesotans is good for the human gene pool.

 

[Death-Ninja]

They have descended into the blackest of black evil, I would not be displeased if the entire population of those two evil cities were incinerated via a 2-4 megaton nuke detonation, every fucking one of them, they are no longer human in the strictest sense of being human, what a vile people they have become...

 

[basquebromance]

Walz is being interviewed on CNN...RIGHT NOW!

 

[The Duke]

There is no compromise with evil and what has been done by the Democrats in Minnesota is evil. Mae no mistake about what they have done.

​

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has 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.​

​

During the House and Senate floor debates, bare majorities rejected dozens of amendments that would have made the bill less extreme. The defeated amendments included ones to protect unborn children in the third trimester (with exceptions), to protect against the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion, to provide the option of anesthesia when unborn children can feel pain, and to protect women’s health by requiring that third-trimester abortions take place in a hospital and that abortion facilities be licensed by the state.​

​

Proponents of the PRO Act sought to downplay the reality and frequency of elective late abortions, even though evidence shows that most abortions after 21 weeks occur for elective reasons. “This law doesn’t just allow late abortion for medical emergencies or hard cases,” said Blaeser. “It allows late abortion for any reason whatsoever, and it’s an open invitation to notorious late abortion practitioners to come to Minnesota to set up shop. Here in Minnesota, you don’t even need to be a doctor or have a licensed facility in order to perform abortions. The lack of guardrails to protect women and children is appalling.”​

​

Dyuring [sic] the debate, Minnesota Catholic bishops opposed the bill. They reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to protect all human life, including babies in the womb.​

​

“In a post-Dobbs world in which states that allow abortion have the responsibility to both regulate the practice and protect nascent human life, we should be working to find common ground on the challenges before us in Minnesota,” the bishops said. “We stand firm that every child should be welcomed in life and protected by law.”​

​

...​

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Signs Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth - LifeNews.com

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has 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...

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Anyone who does things like that are oxygen thieves. Should not be allowed to remain in a free society.

 

[blackhawk]

When the Dobbs decision came down many of us said this did end the abortion issue it just moved it to the states and that some would go with much tougher laws some less tough.

 

[excalibur]

(a) No abortion shall be performed in this state except with the voluntary ... (iv) for abortions after 20 weeks gestational, whether or not an anesthetic ...

Sec. 145.4242 MN Statutes​

MN Revisor's Office › statutes › cite


What is the cutoff for abortions in Minnesota?


between weeks 24 and 28

Only Iowa successfully passed such a bill, but it was struck down by the courts. As of May 14, 2019, the state prohibited abortions after the fetus was viable, generally some point between weeks 24 and 28 in gestation. This period was defined by the US Supreme Court in their landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade.

Abortion in Minnesota - Wikipedia​

Why are you citing old law? Can you not read the OP? They have a new law now.

 

[The Duke]

Thank You Governor Walz.
Fewer Minnesotans is good for the human gene pool.

What would Bobby's mom think?

 

[night_son]

There is no compromise with evil and what has been done by the Democrats in Minnesota is evil. Mae no mistake about what they have done.

​

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has 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.​

​

During the House and Senate floor debates, bare majorities rejected dozens of amendments that would have made the bill less extreme. The defeated amendments included ones to protect unborn children in the third trimester (with exceptions), to protect against the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion, to provide the option of anesthesia when unborn children can feel pain, and to protect women’s health by requiring that third-trimester abortions take place in a hospital and that abortion facilities be licensed by the state.​

​

Proponents of the PRO Act sought to downplay the reality and frequency of elective late abortions, even though evidence shows that most abortions after 21 weeks occur for elective reasons. “This law doesn’t just allow late abortion for medical emergencies or hard cases,” said Blaeser. “It allows late abortion for any reason whatsoever, and it’s an open invitation to notorious late abortion practitioners to come to Minnesota to set up shop. Here in Minnesota, you don’t even need to be a doctor or have a licensed facility in order to perform abortions. The lack of guardrails to protect women and children is appalling.”​

​

Dyuring [sic] the debate, Minnesota Catholic bishops opposed the bill. They reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to protect all human life, including babies in the womb.​

​

“In a post-Dobbs world in which states that allow abortion have the responsibility to both regulate the practice and protect nascent human life, we should be working to find common ground on the challenges before us in Minnesota,” the bishops said. “We stand firm that every child should be welcomed in life and protected by law.”​

​

...​

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Signs Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth - LifeNews.com

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has 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...

www.lifenews.com

Soon they'll be televising live abortions with red robed people standing around the operating theater chanting, "Hail Satan!" People at large won't even bat an eye . . . long as they got their cellular phone devices clutched close to their hearts.

 

[Votto]

Maybe if less liberals are born, this state will finally go red.

Not condemning it yet.

That's not how it works

How it works is that conservative parents send their children to schools that teach them that infanticide equals social justice.

 

[petro]

That's not how it works

How it works is that conservative parents send their children to schools that teach them that infanticide equals social justice.

There are hardly any conservative parents in the Twin Cities metro region, and by sheer numbers they out vote the rest of the state. Just like every metro region in the nation.
Just isn't going to happen that way.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

What ghoul would ever allow or condone that

 

[Independentthinker]

There is no compromise with evil and what has been done by the Democrats in Minnesota is evil. Mae no mistake about what they have done.

​

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has 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.​

​

During the House and Senate floor debates, bare majorities rejected dozens of amendments that would have made the bill less extreme. The defeated amendments included ones to protect unborn children in the third trimester (with exceptions), to protect against the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion, to provide the option of anesthesia when unborn children can feel pain, and to protect women’s health by requiring that third-trimester abortions take place in a hospital and that abortion facilities be licensed by the state.​

​

Proponents of the PRO Act sought to downplay the reality and frequency of elective late abortions, even though evidence shows that most abortions after 21 weeks occur for elective reasons. “This law doesn’t just allow late abortion for medical emergencies or hard cases,” said Blaeser. “It allows late abortion for any reason whatsoever, and it’s an open invitation to notorious late abortion practitioners to come to Minnesota to set up shop. Here in Minnesota, you don’t even need to be a doctor or have a licensed facility in order to perform abortions. The lack of guardrails to protect women and children is appalling.”​

​

Dyuring [sic] the debate, Minnesota Catholic bishops opposed the bill. They reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to protect all human life, including babies in the womb.​

​

“In a post-Dobbs world in which states that allow abortion have the responsibility to both regulate the practice and protect nascent human life, we should be working to find common ground on the challenges before us in Minnesota,” the bishops said. “We stand firm that every child should be welcomed in life and protected by law.”​

​

...​

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Signs Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth - LifeNews.com

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has 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...

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That's totally disgusting.

 

[CarsomyrPlusSix]

We need a national divorce. A country cannot be shared with these fucking barbarians, and no military alliance or association is desired with obvious enemies to humanity.

 

[martybegan]

Maybe if less liberals are born, this state will finally go red.

Not condemning it yet.

Why do you think the left worked so hard to control education and culture?

 

[Blues Man]

(a) No abortion shall be performed in this state except with the voluntary ... (iv) for abortions after 20 weeks gestational, whether or not an anesthetic ...

Sec. 145.4242 MN Statutes​

MN Revisor's Office › statutes › cite


What is the cutoff for abortions in Minnesota?


between weeks 24 and 28

Only Iowa successfully passed such a bill, but it was struck down by the courts. As of May 14, 2019, the state prohibited abortions after the fetus was viable, generally some point between weeks 24 and 28 in gestation. This period was defined by the US Supreme Court in their landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade.

Abortion in Minnesota - Wikipedia​

The fact of the matter is that less than 1% of all abortions occur after week 21 and 93% of all abortions occur before week 13 and 63% of those are done before week 9