Walz repeats Georgia abortion death falsehood decried by doctors as ‘fearmongering’

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz claimed in the course of the CBS Information Vice Presidential Debate {that a} lady in Georgia doubtless died because of the state’s “restrictive” abortion legal guidelines following the overturning of Roe, regardless of docs beforehand denouncing such a story as “fearmongering.”

“There is a younger lady named Amber Thurman. She occurred to be in Georgia, a restrictive state. Due to that, she needed to journey a protracted distance to North Carolina to try to get her care. Amber Thurmond died in that journey backwards and forwards. The very fact of the matter is, how can we as a nation say that your life and your rights, as primary as the suitable to manage your individual physique, is decided on geography,” Walz stated in the course of the debate whereas sparring with Vance on abortion legal guidelines. 

“There is a very actual probability that if Amber Thurman lived in Minnesota, she could be alive in the present day. That is why the restoration of Roe versus Wade,” he stated. 

Walz joined Ohio Sen. JD Vance in New York Metropolis on Tuesday night the place the pair squared off on key voter points this election cycle, together with the economic system, immigration and abortion. 

OB-GYNS DECRY THE ‘FEARMONGERING’ ABOUT GEORGIA’S ABORTION LAWS: ‘THE LIES ARE HURTING WOMEN’

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz baffled the web on Tuesday when he accidently declared he has “turn out to be pals with faculty shooters” in the course of the CBS Information Vice Presidential Debate towards Sen. JD Vance.  (Getty Photographs)

Walz’s remarks come after ProPublica revealed an article final month blaming the deaths of two Georgia ladies, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, on the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the state’s new abortion limits after the ladies acquired chemically induced abortions in 2022. Georgia’s heartbeat legislation states that “no abortion shall be carried out if the unborn youngster has a detectable human heartbeat besides within the occasion of a medical emergency or medically futile being pregnant.”

Members of the Democratic Get together, together with Vice President Kamala Harris, have cited their deaths as proof for the necessity to increase abortion entry following the Supreme Courtroom’s 2022 ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group. 

“Good coverage, logical coverage, ethical coverage, humane coverage is about saying a healthcare supplier will solely begin offering that care while you’re about to die?” Harris stated throughout an Atlanta marketing campaign occasion final month, whereas citing Thurman’s loss of life. 

NEW YORK – OCTOBER 01: Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), and Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, take part in a debate on the CBS Broadcast Heart on October 1, 2024 in New York Metropolis. That is anticipated to be the one vice presidential debate of the 2024 basic election. (Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs) (Getty Photographs)

OB-GYNs have since criticized the narrative as a deceptive story that’s being pushed by the media and Democrats.

GEORGIA DOCTORS SPEAK OUT TO CHALLENGE MISINFORMATION ON STATE’S ABORTION LAW, DEATH OF AMBER THURMAN

“I used to be not stunned to see this pro-abortion media attempt to level the blame at Georgia’s pro-life legal guidelines, however, in truth, Georgia’s legal guidelines enable docs to intervene to avoid wasting the lifetime of the lady,” Charlotte Lozier Institute Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs Dr. Ingrid Skop lately instructed Fox Information Digital. 

“I feel the main focus of the Democratic Get together upon abortion as a problem is just as a result of the American individuals don’t perceive the legal guidelines. Many occasions, ladies are damage by abortions. It isn’t obligatory for ladies to stay their greatest life. And, in fact, it’s the fearmongering and lies which have led us to this place the place we’re in the present day, the place individuals even assume there could be a motive to level on the legislation.”

Rep. Wealthy McCormick, R-Ga., and state Rep. Mark Newton have additionally come out to say they do not consider Georgia legal guidelines had something to do with Thurman’s loss of life, however was as a substitute attributable to alleged problems from abortion capsules, as docs could have waited too lengthy to intercede.

HARRIS CALLS FOR ELIMINATING FILIBUSTER TO PASS ‘ROE’ ABORTION BILL INTO FEDERAL LAW

“We by no means deny a lady an abortion as a result of it is going to hurt her in a roundabout way. She’s going to at all times be protected,” McCormick stated in a current interview with Fox Information Digital. 

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

“You have got each proper to an abortion, even with that heartbeat legislation,” he continued. “So, let’s make that very clear proper now. After they say there is no exceptions, there’s by no means any legislation in any state the place there is no exceptions. That does not exist. That is merely not the best way it really works. The mom’s life is at all times protected. With that stated, it does not imply it is easy to get an abortion simply because you’ve gotten a complication or as a result of one thing goes fallacious.”

Get the most recent updates from the 2024 marketing campaign path, unique interviews and extra at our Fox Information Digital election hub.

Fox Information Digital’s Lindsay Kornick and Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.