Tim Walz bats down Fox News anchor for ‘distraction’ during questions on late-term abortions

Kamala Harris’s running mate Tim Walz was back onthe Sunday circuit this week and took to Fox News in an effort to reach the conservative voters the Harriz-Walz campaign is increasingly trying to attract.

Walz appeared on Fox News Sunday for an interview with Shannon Bream just days after Harris herself rallied alongside former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, the Republican co-chair of the January 6 committee.

Bream questioned Walz about changes to Minnesota law that conservatives have falsely claimed will allow doctors to let babies “born alive” during exceedingly rare abortions performed after 21 weeks of gestation.

Democrats and medical experts have roundly rejected those claims, noting that doctors still have ethical obligations to provide care to any patient in their custody, and pointing out the obvious fact that no cases of babies dying in this manner have ever been recorded.

Walz called those questions a “distraction” from discussions about Republican-led efforts to restrict abortion both at the state level and nationally, which even when organized to allow for legal exceptions in the case of life-threatening emergencies have led toreal, tangible examples of women dyinng and beingseriously injured by delays of essential care.

“This is a distraction from the real issue here [which] is women being forced into miscarriages, women being forced to go back home, get sepsis, potentially die,” he said. “Maternal mortality rates in Texas have skyrocketed off the charts because of this. This is bad policy.”

Referring to Donald Trump calling the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade a “beautiful thing”, Walz said that “it’s not a beautiful thing to see women dying. It’s not a beautiful thing to put doctors at risk of