Minnesota Passes Bill to Legalize Abortion Up Until Birth
Minnesota’s state senator passed a bill granting abortion rights that allows for abortion up until the time of birth.
The Protect Reproductive Options Act (PRO) was passed 34 to 33 and now goes before the Governor. Bill Walz’s desk. He indicated that he would sign it.
“Minnesotans don’t support elective third-trimester abortion. They just don’t. But that’s what this extreme bill entrenches in our state law: the right to abort any baby for any reason at any time up to birth,” Cathy Blaeser is Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Co-Executive Director. “Under this bill, even babies who are old enough to live outside the womb and to feel excruciating pain have no protection from lethal violence. The extremism of H.F. 1 puts Minnesota in the same category as just a handful of countries around the world, including North Korea and China.”
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H.F. 1 is a Sen. Jennifer McEwen-authored document. It would be possible to create an “fundamental right” To abort Abortions would be allowed for any reason, even late during pregnancy. A state may require anesthesia to be administered to babies, as a fetus could feel pain as early as 20 weeks after gestation.
Minnesota doesn’t have such a law.
Many amendments that would make H.F. 1 less extreme have been voted down or blocked. 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.
Additional bills that expand abortion have been introduced to the Capitol. H.F.91/S.F. is one such bill. 70, would repeal many laws relating to abortion, including a law protecting infants who survive an abortion.
Backers of the bill claim that it will only legalize what is already legal and codify the rest. “human right” to abortion into law.
“The PRO Act solidifies Minnesotans’ human rights into state law and is an insurance policy that our rights won’t be taken away by politicians or judges,” Dr. Sarah Traxler is the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood North Central States.
“All I want, and doctors across Minnesota want, is to provide the best care we can to our patients. And by passing the PRO Act into state law, the Minnesota Legislature will allow us to do just that,” In a statement, she said so.
This is surely an obscured interpretation of the Minnesota bill’s meaning and intent.
Opponents disagree and argue that the bill creates a right for abortion until the moment of birth. Republicans attempted to amend it with “guard rails” The amendments would have prohibited abortions in third-trimester. However, the Democratic majority that was elected recently resisted their amendments.
“Today we are not just codifying Roe v. Wade or Doe v. Gomez, as the author has indicated, we are enacting the most extreme bill in the country,” During debate, Mark Johnson, Republican Senate Minority Leader from East Grand Forks, said so.
Why hide the purpose of this bill if the bill’s backers are so certain of its morality? Why the misdirection of Planned Parenthood
They know that if this bill’s true contents are ever known, there will be outrage, not only from pro-life advocates, but also among ordinary people, who will oppose the legislature passing such a barbarous bill.
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