{"id":311895,"date":"2024-05-07T17:41:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=311895"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:09:29","slug":"fact-check-minnesota-ad-affirms-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fact-check-minnesota-ad-affirms-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted ‘fact check’ of pro-life Minnesota ad unwittingly affirms the ad’s claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Like many states, pro-abortion legislators in Minnesota are working to make abortion until birth a constitutional right<\/a>. Pro-life advocates are fighting back with an ad, and CBS Minnesota published an article claiming the ad was “misleading.” Yet the article then went on to affirm that the points made in the ad were, in fact, accurate<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The ad was published by Minnesota Citizens Concerned For Life (MCCL), and said that the state has the most extreme pro-abortion laws in the country. “That claim is misleading,” CBS Minnesota said, before immediately admitting, “It is true that Minnesota has one of the most pro-abortion rights laws in the nation. Abortion laws differ and can be interpreted differently.”<\/p>\n

This is in reference to the Protective Reproductive Options (PRO) Act, which was signed into law last year<\/a>, and though abortion was already legal in Minnesota, it was meant to give another layer of protection to abortion access. It also allowed abortions to be committed at any time, for any reason, no matter how far along in the pregnancy. According to the Guttmacher Institute<\/a>, a pro-abortion organization which previously served as the research arm for Planned Parenthood, Minnesota<\/a> and four other states are listed as “very protective” of abortion, with only two states<\/em> being more<\/em> “protective” of abortion than Minnesota.<\/p>\n