Democrat candidates running for every level of government, from Kamala Harris on down, have made abortion the defining issue of their campaigns, insisting that Republican “extremism” on the issue will sway voters. But as Donald Trump correctly pointed out on the debate stage last week, Democrats, including Kamala Harris and especially her running mate Tim Walz, are the real abortion extremists.
Perhaps one of the most under-appreciated moments of last Tuesday’s clash between Trump and Harris was the former president’s willingness to go on offense against Democrats on abortion. Walz believes “abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine,” Trump said at one point. “He also says execution after birth — it’s execution, no longer abortion because the baby is born — is OK.”
“Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion,” Harris responded. “That’s not happening, that’s insulting to the women of America.” Unsurprisingly, the ABC moderators attempted to swoop in and save Harris with one of many bogus “fact checks” claiming that Trump was lying. “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born,” moderator Linsey Davis stated.
But unfortunately for Harris, Davis, and unborn babies, Trump was correct, and there is no clearer example of that than Minnesota.
According to a report from The Daily Caller, “Twenty-four abortion procedures between 2015 and 2022 led to live births” in Minnesota. The record notes that seven of these babies were given “comfort care” but “no specific steps taken to preserve life were reported.”
In other words, the living, breathing babies were left to die.
Thanks to Tim Walz, that grotesque practice is completely legal. An omnibus bill Walz signed in 2023 made it legal for physicians to refuse life-saving care to infants born after failed abortions. (Also worth noting, as a congressman, Walz voted against a bill requiring doctors to provide life-saving care for “born alive” abortion survivors.)
Moreover, even that number may be a significant underestimate, as Walz also signed a bill eliminating a requirement that abortion providers report live births.
Another piece of legislation Walz signed in 2023 repealed Minnesota’s prohibition on clinics coercing women into having abortions, often through deception and scare tactics. As Dan McLaughlin put it for National Review, in the span of just a few years under Tim Walz, “Minnesota went from a pro-choice state to a radically pro-abortion state at the expense of pregnant women.”
And Minnesota is hardly alone. Nine states and Washington, D.C., currently have no gestational limit on abortion. As a result of bills like the one Walz signed, doctors can perform third-trimester abortions with no oversight or restrictions. If Democrats in D.C. have it their way, this same radical policy will go national.
As Trump also accurately noted during the debate, in 2019, former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam infamously defended extreme late-term abortions in a live radio interview, stating that during abortions in which the preborn baby is viable outside the womb, “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
Northam’s comments came in support of a bill from Democrat state legislator Kathy Tran, who also admitted that her bill would allow extreme late-term abortions up until the moment of birth. It seems Walz is hardly alone in supporting this heinous practice.
As Trump also correctly pointed out, he has clearly stated his position on abortion, but Harris and most Democrats have refused to be straight with the public on the issue. Trump has pledged to leave legislating on abortion to the states as the Supreme Court outlined in the 2022 Dobbs decision, while also working to implement policies that encourage more mothers to choose life.
Harris, meanwhile, has repeatedly declined to say whether she supports any restrictions on the practice, instead hiding behind the favorite Democrat line of “reproductive freedom.” The debate moderators last week did ask Harris whether she supports any protections for unborn life but refused to follow up when the vice president offered yet another non-answer.
Yet Harris’s past actions and statements are instructive, as much as she now tries to appease her base while trying to avoid alienating the majority of Americans who support some protections for the unborn.
Earlier this year, for instance, The New York Times celebrated Harris’s visit to an abortion clinic as a “historic first.” Harris has also repeatedly called for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion.
During her failed 2020 presidential campaign, Harris declared that she would weaponize the Department of Justice to “pre-empt” pro-life state laws. As a senator, Harris voted against the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and co-sponsored a bill that would’ve overridden state laws and allowed unrestricted abortion at any stage of pregnancy nationwide.
Despite all the fearmongering from the corporate media and left-wing activists, the facts suggest that it is Harris and her Democrat allies, not Trump and Republicans, that are far out of step with most voters on abortion.
Andrew Shirley is a veteran speechwriter and AMAC Newsline columnist. His commentary can be found on X at @AA_Shirley.
why is it that if a pregnant woman is killed, the killer can be tried, and convicted, of DOUBLE MURDER, but abortion isn’t a crime!?
It is so beyond me what these people who advocate and have abortions do not see that an abortion is taking a life! In that, I mean if there is a beating heart, there is life! I do realize that there are certain circumstances where it is necessary. But I think that many women are using it for birth control. So who is pushing for an abortion? Is it the person who is pregnant or is it the life inside of her? Too bad that the child has no voice! I’m not sure of the life I would have if I had had an abortion! It boils down to what this is– murder-taking a life!
Bottom Line — Abortion at all levels of pregnancy and those babies left to die after birth is MURDER. Many that have supported abortions, had it done and not repented of it will not have a leg to stand on at their final judgement with the Father. Reconsider your stance on the abortion issue before it is too late.
Great article, even though it sickens me to read it. Great societies depend on women who give birth and then nurture their young. Also depend on fathers who take responsibility for their families. I will say this straight out: If you are a woman who has so little maternal instinct that you put sexual freedom or career in front of raising your children, then you are contributing to the demise of our species.If you are an absentee father, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Stable societies are built upon a strong family structure. Our society will be judged by the way we treat our weakest members.
Must be a very good business, abortion, else they would concentrate on teaching of how not to get pregnant If this was .about a reproductive right, would there not be a baby at the end?
It is genocide what they are for. Reproductive rights is a misnomer. You can reproduce all you want. It is just a question of legal killing of viable babies. They should call it what it is. Legal euthanasia. Kameltoe refused to say in the debate when in the trimester she would prohibit an abortion. She kept screaming at Trump tell us if you will veto Roe v Wade if congress should pass this legislation. They want genocide. Next will be euthanasia for the elderly. We are living too long. We seniors are a drain on society. The working class is too expensive and are being replaced with invaders. Wages are falling, prices are going up. Bankrupting America. Global world achieved. “You will own nothing but you will be happy”. Klaus Schwab founder and head of the WEF, slogan. This abortion question is larger than what the dems let it be known. It is population control plain and simple. VOTE TRUMP/VANCE and bring sanity back to America.
I received a flyer in the mail from the democrats that pushed the “freedom” theme for “bodily autonomy”and related abortion topics. These evil scum are worshipping Baal while sugar coating their agenda by spewing “freedom” and “joy” to headline their evil agenda.
Ending the life of a living being with a heartbeat is nothing less than MURDER!!!
Why don’t these discussions ever involve birth control? whatever happened to that? It’s too bad these lefty radical’s mothers didn’t abort them.
Shouldn’t the sign behind Kacklin Kamala read Fight for Non-reproductive freedom? All they ever espouse is killing babies on demand.
And the sad part is, they call it women’s health care. Killing the most vulnerable human beings before they are even born, is barbaric, plain and simple.
“There is nothing new under the sun” The same Demons that required child sacrifice before Baal worshipers could enter their temple in Old Testament times had their minions, ‘Democrats’ set up portable Planned Parenthood trucks outside of the Democrat National Convention center this year.
Dems WANT Genocide
If God creates a child, who are we to stop Him from doing so?
Getting tired of all this argument. The solution is simple: Don’t want to risk getting pregnant and potentially ruin that “hot body?” KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED! Don’t want to run the risk of being a “deadbeat dad?” KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS! All of this is less stressful than an abortion or court ordered alimony/child support, the depression afterwards is not worth it. A time will come when you will be ready to be a parent so restraint is the best way to make that happen when it needs to.
The abortion issue is more prevalent today than at any other time in our history. Sex education, especially at the high school level has been replaced with transgender education and convincing or coercing young women and young men that they can switch sexes at will which I believe has led to a higher than necessary incidence of unwanted pregnancies and abortion has become more common than a tooth extraction. The time has come for our middle and high schools to get back to teaching proper sex education , the biological results of casual sexual encounters and each and every method of birth control, what works, what doesn’t and what is marginal. That wil minimize the need for so many abortions.
So many LIES from the “pro-choice” monsters! First, they only give women ONE choice-abortion. They do not support adoption or help women who want to keep their babies by providing financial support. Pro-life centers do BOTH. Then the lie about reproduction and health. Health doesn’t lead to death; it prevents it. Reproduction provides babies; it doesn’t KILL them. Then, “it’s my body.” The baby has a UNIQUE set of DNA and is NOT her body; the baby is a separate body which just happens to be inside “her” body. Finally, they want to legislate a new Roe v. Wade but the proposal nearly passed by Congress went far beyond the few limits in Roe v. Wade. They want taxpayer-funded abortions at any time for any reason. And yes, ABC “news,” even AFTER the baby is born!!
Abortion is Murder!
Abortion is murder. Period. No exceptions except one: the life of the mother is endangered by her pregnancy. Then it becomes one life or the other. All the rest of these excuses are bogus. Very few from rape or incest so that wouldn’t make a substantial difference anyway. If its only for convenience, then it is wrong… Wish more of us could understand that, but we don’t.
It’s just a formula for the “Democrats”. Say inaccurate things to those who are impressionable enough to believe, keep repeating that they’re all victims, and, maybe a political win will result. Many who have never loved a baby or a child will take the bait, and vote “Democrat”.
Those who DO take that bait had best not grow a warm, mature soul anytime after… because personal regret is far less accommodating than those who misguide people for a political “win”.
She and all like her are sickening.
Yes SOOO Typical Of DEMON-RATS, Not Only Pass a Bill ALLOWING LIVE BIRTH ABORTIONS But Then COVER UP The “REPORTING” Of Those BABIES BORN ALIVE…But LEFT TO DIE NOT…Even “”COUNTED”” As a MURDER…WHICH IF The BABY WAS BORN….& ALIVE & They CHOSE TO NOT GIVE The BABY MEDICAL CARE…THAT IS MURDER. That IS EXACTLY What THEY’VE DONE….THEN…As THEY DO ALL THINGS NOT…A GOOD “”LOOK”” Or GOOD STAT….Make Another LAW Or BILL To NOT “”ALLOW”” The REPORTING OF IT….You Know, LIKE THE CRIME STATS!! IN EVERY DEMONRAT “”RUN”” AREA…You Are NOT Being TOLD About THOSE REAL #’s Either! But, Eventually, YOU’RE ALL Going To SEE…For YOURSELVES.. As Some AREAS Like “SPRINGFIELD” Are Seeing IT, Same As NY, Same as Chicago, Same As EVERY DEMONRAT RUN…AREA….You WILL NOT SEE…What They DON’T WANT…You To SEE Including the REAL #’s Of ANY “”STAT”” That Does NOT HELP….THEM…THIS Is What I Mean When I SAY…You Haven’t SEEN ANYTHING YET…As Far as the WORST That’s ALREADY BEEN DONE….Just Hasn’t “CAUGHT” Up TO Seeing, YET.
From someone who never gave birth…..or did she?
Maybe there’s a reason she pushes abortion ????
Not to minimize the abortion issue, but I feel that we are spending too much time on it. After all it has been pushed back to the states to determine the issue. We have too many bigger issues right now – immigration, crime, economy, etc. We need to concentrate on fixing America!!!
Kermit Gosnell must be wondering why he’s in prison for doing what Democrats call “reproductive choice”.
Here’s a concept that slammed into my brain a couple of years ago with the out of control abortions…estimates from 60 million to over 65 million…a sizable nation. If the communists are bleating “abortion, abortion” and young women who’re dumber than rocks are right there cheering it on….does the term “population control” not come to mind?? Does not repetitious speech come to mind? When one has heard the same thing over and over does it not become irreparably lodged in the subconscious. I realize there are situations that are very bad that must be dealt with and the abortion crowd have been trained to use those excuses to explain the millions of abortions past tense. I’ve mentioned this a few times: George Bush Sr. presidential acceptance speech: “We must usher in the “new world order”. Think about it. Less people to control, less to feed, less to deal with. Voila! We the dictators, so enamored of our little ego’s will rule the nations. Be done with all those “excess” people. IT WILL BE OURS!! ALL OURS!!!! Bwa ha ha ha…..think not? We’ve by and large trashed our once Constitutional Republic by not really paying attention. We’ve had it better than virtually any nation that ever existed. Nice homes, good jobs, freedom the envy of every other nation save maybe England. We once had a strong criminal justice system…that has become a sick joke.
We had awesome manufacturing, cars and trucks the jewels of any nation, appliances, home grown building materials…now save for maybe Toyota or Subaru with vehicles, Toyota, maybe Subaru being at least assembled in the USA, all the rest in Mexico, parts made in China, Detroit once the shining car capitol of the nation much of which is run down, crime ridden. I hate to admit it but I love my American built Tacoma. Indeed it was engineered in Japan, but I wouldn’t trade it for most “American” brands…closing in on 348,000 and still going strong. Go to any Wal-Mart, once the founders dream to become a market for only American made goods, now? Mostly Chinese. Oh I did find some token American made plastic peanut cups once. Whoop. We the people must not only be paying attention but nailing these politicians to the wooden tree. Call, write, e-mail, the more who become professional nuisances to these bloated politicians the better. Back after American citizens were slaughtered under Wm.Jefferson Clinton the demorats decided to go after American’s guns. Well the slaughter at Waco spread over this nation like darkening storm clouds. Militias “sprang” up all over the nation, multiple states had groups from a few to hundreds, all ready to go into action. The demorats response? “Well, perhaps we might table going after American’s guns until a “more opportune time.” Can’t help but wonder how many are, like our Soldiers, are willing to fight for this nation. To fight for the next generation?
Can we maybe see that what’s happening in our nation is that “opportune time”? I won’t say that this isn’t an opportune time…but as our Lord once said, to coin a phrase…the harvest is plenty. But are the Patriots few? I’m hitting 79 in a few days, been doing this for almost 30 years after the slaughter at Waco, but I’m not dead…yet…but bloody tired.
When Trump is elected we’ve maybe got 4 more years of relative “tranquility”. But guaranteed once he’s out…no holds barred. I hate to see Americans in shock wondering what just hit them. P.S. If you aren’t in a Bible believing church, then find one.
I can’t understand the screeching demand for “abortion rights.” Can anybody explain to me what is so difficult about simply taking birth control pills?
On the ABC debate, the twit moderator told president Trump that no state in the United States allows anyone to kill a baby at birth but what the twit failed to do was explain that in 12 states, they are allowed to deliver the baby, then leave it alone to die on it’s own! No food, no resusitation, no help given. ABC is complete trash and has nothing but leftist liars working for it. Hopefully they’ve lost many viewers after that tag team of 3 on 1 debate.
So shut up Linsey Davis…you are as big a liar as KH and TW…it’s all coming out now. I have never understood why people think skeletons don’t ever come out of the closet. They always reveal themselves!!
Abortion is Murder. Adoption is life.
Anyone that would support people or vote for people that support Abortions are just as Evil as the Democrats that support it.
The Democrats are trying to make abortion the major issue this election. Abortion is an issue because a liberay Supreme Court made an error in stating that our Constitution gives a woman the right to have an abortion. It is clearly stated that authority not specifically assign to the Federal government fall upon the States. Support of a known error at any price is obviously an extremist position. Also extrem is the removal of Civil War memorials which serve as a reminder of the consequences of ignoring known errors until the only resolution comes through civil war.
If they don’t abort them they change their sex in elementary school. And Minnesota is hardly alone. Nine states and Washington, D.C., currently have no gestational limit on abortion. I believe colorado is one of them too. How can anyone kill a full term baby?? Even any baby?? Evil people do. It’s too bad they are the ones in the white house now. Don’t let them come back. Save our children. Close or borders and stop illegal terrorist crimes. Lets Make America GREAT Again. VOTE EVIL OUT of our government.
kamala lies. i’m pro choice, but not for abortions of viable 9 months babes
What’s sad is this knowledge will not be made public.
I just had a debate with a boomer lady who had had late term miscarriages. She acknowledged the trauma of these events because she lost desperately wanted children. Unfortunately, such is the stew of mindf ck that dems swim in, an unborn child becomes a thing, a tumour, the minute circumstances change and he or she is no longer wanted. So a child is a child if momma wants him but a mass of tissue if she doesnt.
Know how Not To Become Pregnant!
BEFORE YOU HAVE ANY KIND OF SEX LEARN AND UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE WAYS THAT CREATES A BABY IN YOUR BODY!
LEARN HOW SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES ARE SHARED, AND GIVEN TO EACH OTHER!
STD’s can KILL! IT’S YOUR FAULT IF YOU HAVE ONE OR MORE, AND YOU DON’T TELL THE PERSON BEFORE HAVING SEX!
NO ONE SEEMS TO BE UPSET (EXCEPT FOR THE FEW). SEE A DOCTOR, TAKE MEDICINE TO COMPLETELY HEAL, BEFORE YOU GIVE IT TO SOMEONE YOU ELSE!
NOT ONLY CAN SOME KILL, THEY CAN ALSO MAKE YOU STERILE. MEANING THAT YOU CAN NEVER HAVE A CHILD.
SAVE YOUR SPERM? OR YOUR EGG? Pay someone else to carry your child for you? This is extremely expensive. It’s not guaranteed that the woman won’t miscarry, or have an accident that harms or kills your child.
Having your eggs removed is expensive, and painful. Mistakes can be made with devastating problems. It’s a surgical procedure.
As a female I do not believe that the “government” has any rights AT ALL to my body. I stop right there. I guess I consider that to be pro-choice, because it is MY body. There is absolutely NO legislation concerning men’s body parts…why is that? We barely even go after deadbeat fathers who indiscriminately get women pregnant then leave them to raise that child. We have a broken foster system (trust me I was a foster parent!), really bad parents who are clueless on how to raise a child. Now we have a half million unaccompanied minors who came across our borders, a large number of which have disappeared into the sex trade and will never be seen again.
So, what IS the answer? Extremism on EITHER SIDE is clearly NOT the answer. Women need to stop using abortion as birth control. Men need to understand that they are “half” of the “problem” of too many babies that neither parent wants on one side then parents who desperately desire a child but can’t get pregnant without help but, for whatever reason, refuse to adopt and will only accept their own biological child. Our population is growing but we are also in a decline at the same time. There are answers in there somewhere, but only if both sides meet in the middle.
Thanks for listening.
The elephant is this discussion is “sex”. These people want the right to have sex whenever with whomever with no consequences or repercussions except, if necessary, the inconvenience of an abortion. The other group sees only $$$$. Abortion is a very lucrative business, not only the charge for the operation but also the money from the harvested body parts. The later in term the abortion, the more valuable the body parts. Kill a human being? They could not care less!
Trump was right and his political stance on abortion is exactly what every federal GOP candidate and Congressman need to embrace. That SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade and returned the issue to the states should be a historical setting precedence with many more issues coming out of the DC cesspool following in that vein. Less power in DC and more to the individual states.
I have relatives in AZ and Kari Lake is blowing what should be an easy Senate win by making abortion a federal issue. AZ voters’ main issue, being a border state, is illegal immigration NOT abortion. State officials will deal with the abortion issue there so Lake is out of her lane as one running for the federal office as a US Senator.
I think that it is very disturbing how possessed the Democratic Party is with the killing of the unborn. I can only equate it to demonic
if the dumb as craps are ok with killing live babies, and they are, then they are ok with killing you. are you ready for that?
It’s the money they get from aborted fetus tissues like their Chi-com partners do with organs from their forced live “donors”. Birds of a feather, people can be judged by the company they keep and conspire with !
you know, if a woman isn’t smart enough to count or control her animal urges then maybe if she wants to abort a child she made, maybe she should die along with the baby? what ya think?
Who can possibly support a pro abortionist. Life is precious. If the woman doesn’t want her baby there is probably a family waiting to incorporate it into their family. Do not allow or Condone the death of a child…in whatever stage of development!
I say the baby gets a vote for or against murder! If those who favor abortion had mothers that took that avenue, we would have a completely different conversion now. Of course we wouldn’t know just how bad the aborted person would have turned out. Hmmmm. Are there legitimate reasons for an abortion? Yes, but not for convenience. Anyway, never forget God’s 6th commandment not to kill. Justice will come.
Giving the rights to the states might result in 50 different laws on the books in all 50 states. Idaho has seen a large number of doctors and ob gyns moving to other states due to the strict abortion law a couple of years ago. This is devastating and will end up creating a large hole in the medical profession especially in rural areas. This is one of the biggest issues in USA today & has gotten a lot more controversial since Dobbs decision.
Nobody talks about the Fathers right in a abortion?
This issue should not be up to either party, let the voters decide what they want and especially the women voters & the Doctors & nurses that are leaving states rather than be vilified or sent to prison for making a judgement call to save lives & prevent suffering.