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HARRIS: Thwarting Pro-Life Legislation in Conservative States
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris said that her Medicare-for-All plan would establish a list of politically conservative states that would be required to get pre-approval from the Justice Department before they would be permitted to pass any pro-life legislation.
HARRIS: Outraged by Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade
On May 2, 2022, Politico reported that a leaked draft majority opinion, written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, indicated that the Court had decided to strike down the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and to return the regulation of abortion rights to each individual state. In response, an outraged VP Harris said that “the rights of women are under attack,” and that “opponents of Roe want to punish women and take away their rights to make decisions about their own bodies.”
HARRIS: Omits the Declaration’s Guarantee of Right to “Life”
VP Harris delivered a pro-abortion speech on January 22, 2023, wherein she referenced the Declaration of Independence but omitted any mention of that document’s explicit guarantee of the “unalienable right” to the “Life” that the “Creator” had gifted to all human beings. Harris’ words were as follows: “America is a promise…. A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
HARRIS & BIDEN: Forcing Pro-Lifers to Pay for Abortions
On March 22, 2023, LifeNews.com reported that the Biden-Harris administration was “trying to strip away the rights” of employers to refuse to comply – because of their own moral concerns — with a government mandate requiring businesses, under the terms of Obamacare, to offer their workers health-insurance plans that would cover the costs of abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilization.
HARRIS & BIDEN: Suing Texas Over “Fetal Heartbeat” Law
On September 8, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration sued the state of Texas over its recently enacted “Heartbeat Act,” which prohibited physicians from performing or inducing an abortion after a fetal heartbeat had been detected.
HARRIS, BIDEN, & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Public Funding for Abortions
Advocating the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which since 1976 had barred the use of public money to fund abortions, Senator Harris in 2019 said that “no woman’s access to reproductive health care should be based on how much money she has.”
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris announced a “Medicare-for-All” plan that would cover comprehensive abortion services for all women.
In 2019, then-Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, who had formerly supported the Hyde Amendment, announced that the Amendment “can’t stay” because “times have changed.”
In January 2015, House Republicans introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which sought.to permanently prohibit federal funds from being used to pay for abortions or for health insurance plans that covered abortion-related procedures. When the bill came up for a vote:
The official Democratic Party Platform of 2020 stated: “We will repeal the Hyde Amendment, and protect and codify the right to reproductive freedom.”
HARRIS, BIDEN, & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Forcing Doctors to Perform Abortions Even if They Have Moral Objections
On July 28, 2022, the National Catholic Register reported: “The Biden administration proposed a new rule this week that legal experts say, if finalized, would force hospitals and doctors to perform gender-transition surgeries and abortions,” and “would reverse Trump-era conscience protections which sought to allow medical professionals to opt out of performing procedures against their beliefs.”
On January 29, 2015, House Republicans introduced the Conscience Protection Act, which aimed to prevent the government from penalizing healthcare providers and insurers who wished, for moral or ethical reasons, not to participate in, or pay for, abortions in any way. When this bill came up for a vote in July:
HARRIS & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Infanticide for Babies Who Survive Abortions
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris opposed legislation that would have compelled doctors to provide, for infants who survived abortions, the same degree of care as would normally be given to any infant of the same gestational age who was born in a non-abortion setting.
In January 2023, House Republicans introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which stipulated that in cases where a baby somehow managed to survive an attempted abortion procedure, medical practitioners would be required to try to preserve its life. When the bill came up for a vote:
HARRIS & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposed to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
In 2020, Senator Harris, along with all but two of her fellow Senate Democrats, opposed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, legislation designed to prevent the performance of abortions starting at 20 weeks after conception — at which time, according to scientific evidence, in-utero babies can feel pain. The bill allowed exceptions for abortions deemed necessary in order to protect the life or health of the mother, or where the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
BIDEN: Pledge to Codify Roe v. Wade if Democrats Win Midterms
At a Democratic National Committee event in D.C. on October 18, 2022, President Biden vowed to codify Roe v. Wade into law as his first legislative act after the midterms if Democrats were to succeed in retaining their control of both the House and Senate. “The court got Roe right nearly 50 years ago and I believe the Congress should codify Roe, once and for all,” he said. “The first bill I will send to the Congress will be to codify Roe v. Wade,” he added.
BIDEN: Executive Orders to Protect Abortion Rights
On July 8, 2022 – two weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade – President Biden issued an executive order titled “Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services.” A White House Fact Sheet about the executive order said it would “safeguar[d] access to reproductive health care services, including abortion and contraception.”
On August 3, 2022, President Biden issued a second executive order designed to protect abortion rights in the wake of the June 24 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. The order said, in part: “I am directing my Administration to take further action to protect access to reproductive healthcare services … relating to pregnancy or the termination of a pregnancy.”
WALZ: Abortion-on-Demand
Tim Walz believes that all women should have an unrestricted right to abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy – subsidized by taxpayers, in cases of economic hardship.
WALZ: Abortion-on-Demand (January 2023)
On January 31, 2023, Governor Walz signed the Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act — a bill enshrining a woman’s “right” to abortion without limits. The legislation read: “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.” “Today,” said Walz, “we are delivering on our promise to put up a firewall against efforts to reverse reproductive freedom.”
The Minnesota Family Council stated that in addition to ensuring that abortion would remain legal through the very end of a pregnancy, the PRO Act would: (a) “forc[e] all Minnesotans to pay for all abortion services through Medical Assistance”; (b) “repea[l] the law protecting children born [alive] during [failed] abortion surgery, thereby legalizing infanticide”; and (c) “repea[l] statutes which ensure that pregnant women give informed consent prior to abortion.”
WALZ: Permitting Babies to Die after a Botched Abortion (May 2023)
In May 2023, Walz signed a bill that altered the wording of a Minnesota law which had been on the books since 1976. That 1976 law was reaffirmed in the Born Alive Infants Protection Act of 2015, which stated: “A born alive infant as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person, and accorded immediate protection under the law. All reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice, including the compilation of appropriate medical records, shall be taken by the responsible medical personnel to preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.” (Emphasis added)
By contrast, the legislation that Walz signed in May 2023 said: “An infant who is born alive shall be fully recognized as a human person, and accorded immediate protection under the law. All reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice, including the compilation of appropriate medical records, shall be taken by the responsible medical personnel to care for the infant who is born alive.” (Emphasis added)
Paul Stark, communications director with the pro-life group Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, said: “The concern is that the law no longer requires that lifesaving measures be taken. It only requires ‘care.’ So the law as it’s now written could allow a baby to be left to die, even a baby who could be saved with appropriate lifesaving measures.”
Republican state Rep. Jeff Backer explained that the legislation signed by Walz required only the administration of “comfort care” rather than aggressive efforts to save the baby’s life. “Comfort care means lay on a hard surface, maybe a blanket,” said Backer. “Comfort care is not medical lifesaving care.”
WALZ: Widespread Dispensation of Abortion Pills
In March 2023, Walz was one of 14 Democrat governors who signed a letter pressuring the leaders of major U.S. pharmacies to make abortion pills (like Mifepristone) widely available.
WALZ: State Constitutional Amendment Enshrining Abortion Rights
In January 2024, CBS News reported that Governor Walz “says he is open to putting a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights on the November ballot.”
WALZ & DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Opposed to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
In October 2017, Rep. Walz voted against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (PCUCPA), legislation designed to prevent the performance of abortions starting at 20 weeks after conception — at which time, according to scientific evidence, in-utero babies can feel pain. The bill allowed exceptions for abortions deemed necessary in order to protect the life or health of the mother, or where the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
TRUMP: Spoke at The March for Life
In January 2018, Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. President ever to speak at the March for Life, a massive pro-life rally held annually in D.C. He spoke again at the March for Life rallies in 2019 and 2020.
TRUMP: Opposes Late-Term Abortions
At the 2018 March for Life, Trump said: “Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be [torn] from his or her mother’s womb in the ninth month. It is wrong; it has to change.”
TRUMP: Protect the Right of Doctors To Eschew Abortion for Moral Reasons
At the 2018 March for Life, Trump said: “Today, I’m announcing that we have just issued a new proposal to protect conscience rights and religious freedoms of doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals.”
In May 2019, the Trump administration’s Department of Health & Human Services issued a Conscience and Religious Freedom rule designed, as KFF Health News put it, “to protect the religious rights of health care providers and religious institutions by allowing them to opt out of procedures such as abortions, sterilizations and assisted suicide.”
TRUMP: Believes Abortion Policy Should Be Decided by Each State
Trump agrees with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision of 2022, which ruled that each separate state should decide for itself what its abortion policies should be.
TRUMP: Favors Exceptions for Rape, Incest, & Mother’s Life
Trump favors exceptions on abortion restrictions in cases where a pregnancy results from rape or incest, or where the life of the mother is endangered by the pregnancy.
TRUMP: Opposes a National Abortion Ban
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump has repeatedly stated that he would not sign any bill calling for a nationwide ban on abortions. On October 1, 2024, he expanded that pledge by affirming that even if such a ban were to be passed by Congress, he would veto it. As Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Everyone knows I would not support a federal abortion ban, under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it.”