During last night’s debate, JD Vance made a claim about a law which Tim Walz signed in Minnesota regarding abortion. “The Minnesota law that you signed into law, the statute that you signed into law, it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives, the doctor is under no obligation to provide lifesaving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion,” he said.
News outlets were quick to fact-check that claim and to uniformly say it was false but the reasoning employed seems a bit strained to me. On closer inspection I think they got this wrong. Let’s look at some examples. First up, here’s the NY Times’ take.
Mr. Vance is distorting Mr. Walz’s repeal of a so-called born alive law that had been in effect in Minnesota since the 1970s. That law required doctors to report when a “live child” was “born as the result of an abortion,” and to…
