WASHINGTON—During the vice-presidential debate tonight, Governor Tim Walz was asked by the moderators if he supported abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

The following is a statement from Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life:

Tim Walz refused to answer a simple question about whether he supported abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy and instead engaged in fearmongering and propaganda. His full-throated support of unlimited abortion throughout pregnancy may have been something he didn’t want to admit to during the debate, but his record is clear. Tim Walz supports abortion anywhere, under any circumstances, and at any time throughout pregnancy. His radical, extreme position on abortion is out of touch with the majority of Americans.

If pro-abortion extremists Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were elected, they would put preborn babies in the crosshairs and future generations of Americans would be endangered.

Tim Walz opposes the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. The bill would ensure that an infant who survives an attempted abortion is afforded the same degree of medical care as any other newborn of the same gestational age. As governor, Walz repealed similar state-level protections for newborn babies in Minnesota.

Tim Walz supports a policy allowing unlimited abortion for any reason throughout pregnancy. He signed legislation to enshrine a “fundamental right” to abortion for any reason until birth in Minnesota law and invalidated existing protections like the state’s parental involvement law.

As governor, Walz repealed Minnesota’s Positive Alternatives Act which offered funding for programs that provided adoption services, housing assistance, counseling, childcare, parenting education, medical attention for mothers and babies in need, and more.

Tim Walz memorably described his own extreme record as “so pro-choice Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should tone it down.”

Tim Walz’s record on life can here.

Kamala Harris’s record on life can be found here.

Checking the Fact-checkers: “After-Birth” Abortions or Modern Infanticide: Abandoning Babies to Die can be found here.

The Democratic Party’s extensive support of unlimited abortion can be found here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

WASHINGTON— On Tuesday, National Right to Life (NRLC) released a special report, Checking the Fact-Checkers: “After-Birth” Abortions, about babies born alive following abortions. The document was released at a congressional briefing on the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”

The document comes at a crucial time when pro-abortion groups have promoted false narratives about babies who are born alive during abortions. Additionally, vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is under scrutiny and criticism for his actions in reversing state protections for babies born alive following abortions.

“The abortion industry and its sympathizers want to make this about abortion. It’s not. It’s about infanticide,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “It is barbaric that newborns who have the temerity to survive an abortion are considered the ‘dreaded complication’ by abortionists.”

Tobias continued, “The baby who survives an abortion deserves the full protection of the law.”

The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” would require that when a baby is born alive following an abortion, health care practitioners must exercise the same degree of professional skill and care that would be offered to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. It also requires that, following appropriate care, health care workers must transport the child immediately to a hospital.

Speakers at the congressional briefing included Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, Sarah Zagorski, director of communications for Louisiana Right to Life and a survivor of abortion, Cathy Blaeser, executive director, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, and Melissa Ohden, founder of The Abortion Survivors Network and a survivor of abortion.

Checking the Fact-checkers: “After-Birth” Abortions or Modern Infanticide: Abandoning Babies to Die can be found here.

The record of Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota can be found here.

The record of Vice President Kamala Harris can be found here.

The materials distributed at the briefing can be found here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

WASHINGTON — On Friday, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, supporting Idaho’s efforts to uphold its Defense of Life Act. Idaho’s protective pro-life law ensures that women and their unborn children are not placed at risk by abortion. The Defense of Life Act includes exceptions for cases where the mother’s life is at risk or in instances of sexual assault.

The Biden administration is attempting to misuse the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to advance a pro-abortion agenda. This federal law, originally created to safeguard access to emergency care, is now being used as a tool to force hospitals nationwide to perform abortions.

“This federal overreach not only undermines state sovereignty but also dismisses the will of the people in these states,” said James Bopp, Jr., general counsel for NRLC and lead counsel on NRLC’s brief. “It’s a troubling example of how Washington bureaucrats are willing to ignore local voters to push a one-size-fits-all abortion agenda. The citizens in pro-life states have made their choice at the ballot box, and it’s not the federal government’s place to nullify those decisions.”

In August 2022, the Biden administration filed a lawsuit against Idaho. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which, in June, decided not to make a final ruling. Instead, the Court remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit for further examination. The Ninth Circuit is now scheduled to hear arguments on this pivotal case in December.

“The Biden-Harris administration has made pushing unlimited abortion on the American people a top priority,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Efforts to twist the compassionate EMTALA law is another way forward in their radical agenda of unlimited abortion.”

NRLC’s brief argues that EMTALA was designed to establish a baseline for emergency treatment and prevent patient dumping, not to create a national medical standard of care. The brief emphasizes that EMTALA does not require hospitals to provide medical care contrary to state law, especially in ethically complex areas like abortion.

NRLC’s amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit is available here.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.