Tim Walz’s Message on Killing Babies: “Mind Your Own Damn Business”
You’ve got to hand it to the guy, Tim Walz knows how to speak the language of the average Democrat voter in middle America.
Earlier this week, just hours after Kamala Harris had announced her decision to make him her running mate, Walz stood up in front of thousands of Americans and debuted his “golden rule” for all those Americans interested in preventing the slaughter of innocent unborn babies: “Mind your own damn business.”
It’s a brilliant line.
And it doesn’t just apply to what happens in Planned Parenthoods and abortion clinics in Walz’s home state of Minnesota, where he signed a bill into law last year making killing babies legal at all stages of pregnancy. His “golden rule” applies to IVF too.
You see, the governor of Minnesota takes any argument that suggests that IVF may not be ethical as an attack against his family.
“When my wife and I decided to have children, we spent years going through infertility treatments. And I remember praying every night for a call for good news. The pit in my stomach when the phone rang, and the agony when we heard that the treatments hadn’t worked. So it wasn’t by chance that when we welcomed our daughter into the world, we named her Hope,” he told a crowd of supporters in Philadelphia.
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It isn’t the first time that Walz has accused the Republican ticket of being anti-IVF. Less than a month ago, he attacked JD Vance on X for voting against a bill that would have protected access to IVF:
Even if you’ve never gone through the hell of infertility, someone you know has. When Gwen and I were having trouble getting pregnant, the anxiety and frustration blotted out the sun.
JD Vance opposing the miracle of IVF is a direct attack on my family and so many others. https://t.co/tWhQEPjft2
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) July 25, 2024
As Politico pointed out, claiming that Republicans are opposed to IVF is a bit of a stretch. “Republicans have made it clear that they support IVF — the vast majority of Republicans have. There’s no effort to roll back IVF,” Mark Graul, a GOP strategist from Wisconsin told the news organization.
Graul isn’t wrong. Most Republicans have openly expressed their support for the treatment. When Alabama’s Supreme Court found that frozen embryos should be considered children under state law, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump assured voters: “Like the overwhelming majority of Americans, including the vast majority of Republicans, conservatives, Christians and pro-life Americans, I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious little beautiful baby. I support it.”
So, when Walz tells Republicans to “mind your own damn business,” many of them are eager to comply. There’s just one problem. The Republican Party has been the pro-life party for decades at this point, and it is becoming incredibly difficult to ignore the fact that IVF isn’t pro-life.
As Politico points out, pro-life advocates have “made clear that securing personhood rights for fetuses and embryos is its next frontier … Already, more than a third of states consider fetuses or embryos to be people at some point during pregnancy, a potential problem for fertility care given that clinics during the IVF process typically create more embryos than someone plans to implant, with the rest donated, stored or destroyed.”
When the Alabama court ruling stirred up the debate on IVF, Ellie Gardey Holmes wrote here at JP that, “Almost every child born by IVF in the United States has siblings who were either killed or frozen so that they could be born.” One journalist for the National Catholic Register estimated that, in 2021 alone, “more than two and a half million human beings were killed or frozen” as a result of IVF. Those pro-life advocates who are now campaigning and lobbying for the federal government to recognize the personhood of embryos, whether conceived naturally or in a lab, are right to do so.
Pointing out the fact that millions of tiny Americans are being killed by the IVF industry isn’t a personal attack on Tim Walz or any other American who has had recourse to IVF to start a family. It’s also not to say that children born via IVF shouldn’t exist. They should. Every one of them is a beautiful human being infused with life and an eternal soul. They aren’t responsible for the circumstances of their birth.
But it is to point out that there are grave moral issues with the practice.
Walz would like us to mind our own business, to turn a blind eye to the plight of our defenseless countrymen. But, when an industry worth tens of billions of dollars is killing millions of innocent children, we can’t just ignore that evil or leave it to individual Americans to figure out, no matter how hard Walz tries to pull on our heartstrings.
LifeNews Note: Aubrey Gulick is a graduate of Hillsdale College (2023), the former Intercollegiate Studies Institute fellow at JP, and its current digital editor — where this column originally appeared.