At the vice presidential debate on October 1, Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio senator J.D. Vance sparred with Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz. That’s all Minnesota Abortion Law.

Vance: “I read the Minnesota law that you signed into law that says a doctor who presides over an abortion in which the baby survives has no obligation to provide life-saving treatment.Failed late-term abortions. A baby who survived.

Waltz: “No way. That’s not true. That’s not what the law says.”

Minnesota law passed 1976“A living child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human being and shall be accorded immediate protection under the law.” It also required that “all reasonable steps, consistent with good medical practice, be taken to protect the life and health of the child, including the preparation of appropriate medical records.”

minnesota Required Medical personnel said, “We are protecting the life and health of infants who were born alive.” Confirmation of dispatch fact. A 2015 law signed by the Democratic governor strengthened protections, defining live-born infants as “all infants of the species Homo sapiens who are born alive at any stage of development,” according to the paper.

Walz signed the bill into law in 2023, eliminating restrictions on abortion based on gestational age and eliminating a statute that requires health care providers to “protect the life and health of infants born alive.” Instead, it is need Health care workers “take care of infants who are born alive.”

“This is an important step in the right direction,” said Rep. Tina Liebling, D-Farmer-Minnesota, who co-authored the law. testified On the floor of the state House, it was said to be “words of comfort.” minnesota public radio. (Related: Did J.D. Vance follow would-be assassin Trump on social media?)

“If you go into labor prematurely or give birth to a baby with some kind of fatal defect, that’s the way it should be, rather than having that baby ripped out of your arms, requiring extensive intervention. Politicians have decided that there is, so that’s what we should do.” between parents and doctors. People in tragic situations like this have a right to privacy,” Liebling said.

Further dispatch reported“Although Mr. Walz did help eliminate certain protections for newborn infants in Minnesota law, infants born from unsuccessful abortions are still explicitly protected.” federal law The Newborn Child Protection Act of 2002 amended the U.S. Code to include newborn infants in the definitions of “person,” “human being,” “child,” and “person.”