Posted on 07/23/2022 11:26:42 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The bill would have required health care workers to treat infants born alive after an abortion the same as any other infant at the same gestational age.
In January 2018, when now-governor Tim Walz was still a congressman in the U.S. House, he apologized for “accidentally” voting in favor of a bill protecting infants who survived an abortion.
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (HR 4712), which passed the U.S. House by a 241-183 vote, said it would require health workers to treat infants born alive after an abortion (or attempted abortion) the same as any other infant at the same gestational age, and to ensure the infant receives immediate medical attention at a hospital.
Only six Democrats voted in favor of the bill, but one of them did so on accident. Then-Rep. Walz felt compelled to publicly clarify that his vote was an “honest mistake.”
“I meant to vote NO, as I did on an identical bill last Congress. My apologies for the confusion. I’ll keep fighting for women’s access to health care,” he tweeted at the time.
Attached was an image of Walz’s statement asking former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to change his vote.
“My intent was to vote NO on HR 4712,” he wrote. “A procedural vote was added to the scheduled vote series and my Yes vote was on my approval of the journal.”
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Apologized to who?
Twitter.
Giving a baby who survives an abortion medical treatment has NOTHING to do with women’s access to healthcare.
His “mistaken” vote would not have had the least effect on the mother.
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