Minnesota Governor Tim Walz recently signed the “One Minnesota Budget” into law. This $72 billion budget consists of 12 bills, but the state’s Health and Human Services appropriations Omnibus bill (SF 2995) is particularly concerning in its impact on pro-life protections.
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The over 800-page omnibus bill eliminates long-standing pro-life protections while promoting gender ideology at every turn. Renee Carlson, general counsel for True North Legal, criticized the bill’s provisions.
“Based on elusive claims about access to abortion and with insufficient public notice or debate, the new regime creates a fundamental right to abortion by repealing, and thus removing, nearly all health and safety protections in civil and criminal law regulating abortion, impacting women and young girls.”
Additionally, the bill removed language that required medical providers to preserve the life and health of a child born alive as a result of a failed abortion. This language had previously been a crucial part of Minnesota’s long-standing reporting requirements regarding actions taken to preserve such infants’ lives during abortion procedures.
Republican lawmakers have raised concerns about the bill’s content. They received the proposal the night before the last day of Minnesota’s legislative session and cited frustration that the bill was written with no opportunity for feedback. Republicans said they received the text less than 24 hours before the vote was held.
Representative Tina Liebling (D), the bill’s author in the House, spoke in defense of removing born-alive language at the conclusion of the floor debate. Liebling stated that medical decisions are not always “save the patient at all costs” and “the idea that every infant that is born should automatically be given life-sustaining treatment is not always the right thing to do.”
The Minnesota legislature and Walz administration established one of the most extreme abortion regimes in the country, promoting abortion and gender identity ideology. This aggressive push underscores the newly elected majorities in the House and Senate’s priorities and Walz’s administration toward pushing gender ideology and gender policies on all Minnesotans.
