Tim Walz Made It Legal to Coerce Women into Abortions

There are many ways in which Tim Walz’s record as Minnesota governor reveals him as a radical progressive even by the standards of his party. One of those is his extremism on abortion. It’s conventional wisdom after Dobbs that abortion has, overnight, become an issue with electoral downsides only for pro-lifers. But if anyone is a pro-abortion extremist, it’s Tim Walz. He removes any pretense that Democrats are the moderates on this issue.

Exhibit A: Two bills signed by Walz in 2023. Those bills repealed Minnesota’s prohibition on coercing women into having abortions. They stripped out of the state’s laws the requirement that women give informed consent — indeed, any consent — to an abortion. They guaranteed an unqualified right to abortion up until the moment of birth, and even gutted protections for children born alive after abortion.

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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There are many ways in which Tim Walz’s record as Minnesota governor reveals him as a radical progressive even by the standards of his party. One of those is his extremism on abortion. It’s conventional wisdom after Dobbs that abortion has, overnight, become an issue with electoral downsides only for pro-lifers. But if anyone is a pro-abortion extremist, it’s Tim Walz. He removes any pretense that Democrats are the moderates on this issue.

Exhibit A: Two bills signed by Walz in 2023. Those bills repealed Minnesota’s prohibition on coercing women into having abortions. They stripped out of the state’s laws the requirement that women give informed consent — indeed, any consent — to an abortion. They guaranteed an unqualified right to abortion up until the moment of birth, and even gutted protections for children born alive after abortion.