The Minnesota Senate today passed a bill to enshrine in Minnesota law a right to abortion without limits at any time during pregnancy. Senators approved the bill, H.F. 1, by just a one-vote margin, 34-33. Gov. Tim Walz (D) is expected to sign it into law.
As a result, abortion providers will be able to terminate even babies who are old enough to live outside the womb and will feel excruciating pain when they are dismembered.
H.F. 1, authored by Sen. Jennifer McEwen (DFL-Duluth), would create a “fundamental right” to abortion and require that abortion be allowed for any reason even late in pregnancy, when fetuses are developed enough to feel pain.
Legislators voted down or blocked amendments that would have limited the reach of H.F. 1. The defeated amendments included ones to protect babies in the third trimester (with exceptions), to prohibit partial-birth abortion, to mandate anesthesia for late-term fetuses that can feel pain, and to require that third-trimester abortions take place in a hospital.
