Tim Walz, who is running with Kamala Harris, was back on Sunday talk shows this week and also went on Fox News to try to reach the conservative voters that the Harriz-Walz team is trying to get more and more.
Walz did an interview with Shannon Bream on Fox News on Sunday, just a few days after Harris held a rally with former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is the Republican co-chair of the January 6 group.
Bream asked Walz about changes to Minnesota law that Republicans have said will let doctors “born alive” babies during very rare abortions after 21 weeks of pregnancy. These claims are false.
Democrats and medical professionals have strongly denied these claims, pointing out that doctors still have an ethical duty to care for any patient in their care and that no cases of babies dying in this way have ever been recorded.
Walz said that the questions were “distracting” from talking about the efforts by Republicans to limit abortion at the state and national levels.
These efforts, even when set up to allow for legal exceptions in life-threatening emergencies, have led to real women dying and being seriously hurt because they had to wait too long to get care they needed.
“This takes attention away from the real problem, which is women being forced to have miscarriages or go back home, where they could get sepsis and die,” he said. “Because of this, the death rates for mothers in Texas have gone through the roof.” This is not a good idea.
Walz said, “It is not a beautiful thing to see women dying,” in response to Trump’s comment that the Supreme Court’s choice to overturn Roe v. Wade was a “beautiful thing.” Putting doctors at risk of going to jail is not a nice thing to do.
The Harris-Walz campaign has been talking about women who have been hurt or killed because of delays in lifesaving abortion care caused by anti-abortion laws that are supported by Republicans.
They have also been criticising Republicans for their supposed plan to create a national abortion registry under Project 2025.
This is part of what conservatives are doing to deal with women who want to get an abortion across state lines, even if they live in a state that has a ban.
People who are against abortion rights have said for years that after the Supreme Court’s choice to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, American politics will move away from supporting the ruling’s provisions.
However, the reverse has taken place. Polls show that more Americans now want to protect people’s right to legally get an abortion in most cases.
Donald Trump keeps talking about how he played a part in the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2022 because he chose three justices to the bench. At the same time, he is trying to separate his campaign from the bans in Florida and other states.
Even though bans were put in place in states with conservative local governments, the number of abortions in the US went up in 2023 compared to 2022.
