Much like his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota’s Democrat Gov. Tim Walz used his time on the 2024 vice presidential debate stage in New York City to lie about pro-life laws and advance Democrats’ abortion extremism.

Walz kicked off his first spiel on abortion by lamenting the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision because it opened the door for Republican states to enact popular pro-life limits. He named several women whom he claimed suffered “horrific” pregnancy complications but were refused treatment for them because of red state laws.

“We’re pro-women. We’re pro-freedom to make your own choice. We know what the implications are to not be that,” Walz said. “Women having miscarriages, women not getting the care, physicians feeling like they may be prosecuted for providing that care.”

The pro-life protections passed by GOP states do not criminalize treatments for spontaneous loss or complications. Instead, each and every policy includes exceptions for abortion when it is deemed necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman.

Yet, Walz pushed ahead, even invoking the story of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who died alongside her twin babies after suffering the dangerous and fatal side effects associated with the abortion pill responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions. 

The Democrat not only falsely claimed that Thurman died “in that journey” across state lines, but also pretended that she was denied a dilation and curettage for her septic abortion until it was too late because of the Peach State’s pro-life law.

“There’s a very real chance, had Amber Thurman lived in Minnesota, she would be alive today,” Walz claimed. “How can we as a nation say that your life and your rights, as basic as the right to control your own body, is determined on geography?”

Georgia law specifically carves out exceptions for abortion procedures like dilation and curettage if it “is necessary in order to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”

Women aren’t the only ones safeguarded by these policies. Thousands of innocent lives are saved every year from elective and late-term abortions thanks to legislation that prioritizes Americans’ true feelings about abortion.

Walz’s abortion lies, however, did not stop there. In addition to tricking women into believing the abortion pills made even more readily available to them under the Biden-Harris administration’s expansions will do them no harm, Walz also tried to tie Democrats’ fight to give Big Fertility immunity into his radical abortion talking points by pretending Republican states want to ban birth control and in vitro fertilization.

“It’s going to get more difficult, if not impossible, to get contraception and limit access, if not eliminate access, to infertility treatments,” asserted Walz, who lied for years about how his children were conceived to score political points.

Walz said who uses assisted reproductive technology is “nobody else’s business” but claimed state governments have “proposed” laws to rein it in.

Yet no state has seriously considered banning IVF or even the Walz family’s choice of ART intrauterine insemination. After the Alabama Supreme Court acknowledged embryos are human life, not property, several state legislatures did the opposite — shielding the serial creation and destruction of embryos with sweeping promises of immunity.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.