At the debate this week, ABC’s Linsey Davis smugly “fact-checked” the Republican candidate and said, “There is no state in this nation where it is possible to kill a baby after it is born. Madam Vice President, I would like to hear what you have to say about President Trump.”
“Well, like I said, you are going to hear a bunch of lies,” Kamala Harris agreed with a smile. She then started telling a lot of lies.
But Linsey Davis from ABC told the first lie in this conversation. And, either by coincidence or irony, one of the states where it is allowed to kill kids after birth is Minnesota, which is also where her running mate, Tim Walz, is governor right now.
The Daily Signal looked at data from the Minnesota Dept. of Health that went back several years and found that at least eight kids who lived through abortions and were born alive were later killed or left to die.
In fact, five kids were born after an abortion in the short period of time from January 1, 2021, to December 21, 2021.
According to reports, the first baby was born with “fetal abnormalities” and died soon after. No one tried to save him or her.
On their first and last birthdays, the second and third kids got mysterious “comfort care measures.” Both babies did not make it.
As medical technology improves, the range of “previability” is changing, and the fourth and fifth babies are now considered “previable.” This means they were at a stage of fetal maturity where they have a much lower chance of surviving outside of the uterus. Whatever happened, no one tried to save either kid.
From January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019, (one year), the Daily Signal also found Minnesota’s records. These showed that three babies were born alive after an abortion attempt, and three times these babies were left to die.
One had “fetal abnormalities” and had “residual cardiac activity,” which means their heart was beating for two minutes straight. The doctors decided not to try to save the baby’s life, which is a shame. The papers say that “the infant did not live.”
One of the last two babies died while getting “comfort care measures.” The baby wasn’t helped because the other one was thought to be viable.
It’s not clear if 2019 and 2021 are the only years when the public can still see Minnesota’s medical records.
But because Governor Tim Walz got rid of the joint bill in 2023 that kept track of how many babies were born alive, we will no longer know about these cases.
