{"id":316829,"date":"2024-08-08T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=316829"},"modified":"2024-08-14T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T04:59:45","slug":"minnesota-stopped-reporting-abortion-survivors-two-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/minnesota-stopped-reporting-abortion-survivors-two-dozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why would a state with dozens of abortion survivors in recent years stop reporting them?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many in the media continue to claim that “allowing the death of a baby after it’s born” \u2014 as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has mentioned several times<\/a> \u2014 is not legal<\/em>. And yet, it appears that in Minnesota, it is<\/em> legal under certain circumstances, thanks to a change in the law in 2023 which altered abortion reporting and expanded abortion without restrictions. Halting the reporting of such survivors contributes to the idea that they are a “myth.”<\/p>\n

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was recently selected by Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris as her running mate in the upcoming election. Many news outlets have discussed the governor’s actions regarding abortion during his years in office. Walz became Minnesota’s governor in 2019, following the two-term Democratic Governor Mark Dayton, who served from 2011-2018.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the state legislature first enacted the “Born Alive Infants Protection Act,” requiring the reporting of abortion survivors in the state, and just seven years later<\/a>, the legislature repealed it. As MN Citizens Concerned for Life previously reported<\/a>, “In recent years, five born-alive infants were reported in 2015, five in 2016, three in 2017, three in 2018, three in 2019, and five in 2021, according to the\u00a0<\/span>Minnesota Department of Health<\/a>.” (Zero survivors were reported in 2022.)<\/p>\n