Fact check: Anti-abortion ad spreading across Minnesota

Published: Apr 25, 2024 Duration: 00:02:30 Category: News & Politics

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OF THAT CASE ON OUR WEBSITE. FOX 9.COM. WELL, A NEW ANTIABORTION AD CAMPAIGN IS SPREADING ACROSS THE STATE OF MINNESOTA THIS WEEK IN NEWSPAPERS, ON RADIO AND ON TV, INCLUDING RIGHT HERE ON FOX NINE. SUPPORTERS OF ABORTION RIGHTS ARGUE, THOUGH, THAT IT'S MISLEADING. FOX NINE'S CORIN HOGGARD FACT CHECKED THE INITIAL AD. HE'S LIVE AT THE CAPITOL NOW WITH WHAT HOLDS UP AND WHAT DOESN'T, CORIN. AMY AND KELSEY THOSE ADS FOCUS ON AN ABORTION LAW THAT WAS PASSED HERE LAST YEAR, AS WELL AS AN EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT THAT'S UNDER CONSIDERATION THIS YEAR. USE ABORTION UP TO BIRTH. ISN'T COMPASSIONATE. IT'S WAY OUT THERE. MINNESOTA CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR LIFE TOOK TO THE AIRWAVES TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST A STATE LAW ALLOWING ABORTIONS AT ANY STAGE, RIGHT UP UNTIL CHILDBIRTH. WE KNOW THAT THESE DO HAPPEN, AND WE KNOW THAT LATE TERM ABORTIONISTS ACROSS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE SAYING, COME TO MINNESOTA. STATE STATISTICS SHOW THAT'S HYPERBOLE. ABORTIONS LATER IN PREGNANCY DO HAPPEN IN MINNESOTA, BUT THEY ARE EXTREMELY RARE. 50 YEARS OF MINNESOTA STATS ARE POSTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH WEBSITE, AND THEY SHOW SIX ABORTIONS, PASSED A GESTATIONAL AGE OF 30 WEEKS. ALL OF THEM WERE BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING FOUND DURING THAT PREGNANCY IN A REGULAR PRENATAL EXAM THAT FOUND THAT THAT BABY WAS INCOMPATIBLE WITH LIFE. THAT BABY, AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN, WOULD DIE OR WAS ALREADY IN THE ALREADY DYING SENATOR ELISE MANN IS AN EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR AND A DEMOCRAT WHO SUPPORTED THE ABORTION LAW PASSED IN 2023. SHE SAYS WOMEN AREN'T STAYING PREGNANT FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, AND THEN JUST DECIDING TO ABORT A VIABLE FETUS. IN HER EYES, THE LAW JUST REMOVES A STIGMA AND BARRIERS FOR WOMEN ALREADY IN GRIEF. WE PASSED A LAW THAT SAYS THAT YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN MEDICAL DECISIONS WITH YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR IN YOUR EXAM ROOM, PERIOD. THE LAW IS THE MOST EXTREME IN THE COUNTRY. ACCORDING TO THE MCCL ADDS. THAT IS SUBJECTIVE, BUT AT THE VERY LEAST YOU'D HAVE TO SAY IT'S A TIE. MINNESOTA'S LAW MATCHES THOSE IN AT LEAST SIX OTHER STATES, AND WASHINGTON, D.C. MCCL SAYS THEY SUPPORT A CARVE OUT FOR CASES WHERE THE MOTHER'S LIFE IS AT RISK. BUT THE LAW SHOULD BE MORE RESTRICTIVE. IT'S WAY OUT THERE. THIS IS VERY EXTREME. IT'S NOT WHAT MINNESOTANS WANT. AND THOSE ADS DIRECT PEOPLE TO TELL THEIR LEGISLATORS TO SAY NO TO A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT THAT WOULD ENSHRINE ABORTION RIGHTS, OF COURSE, TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION

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