After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022, Minnesota repealed and re-wrote even its most basic common-sense abortion guidelines, making it one of the most loosely regulated states in the union.

Minnesota is so lax on abortion, in fact, that some journalists assumed Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance must have been lying last week when he said abortion specialists in the state are not required to render life-saving aid to children who survive botched abortions.

But Vance is right.

Under the leadership of Kamala Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D), Minnesota’s laws regarding the care of born-alive infants have been repealed or re-written with vague language that no longer explicitly includes such a requirement. Member of the press simply haven't bothered to check their facts.

“[T]he statute that [Walz] signed into law,” Vance said during the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate, “it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion, where the baby survives, the doctor is under no obligation to provide lifesaving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion."

The Republican candidate added, “That’s fundamentally barbaric.”

Walz objected, accusing Vance of “trying to distort the way a law is written, to try and make a point.”

Prompted by Vance to explain what, exactly, he had gotten incorrect about Minnesota’s abortion laws, Walz asserted again, “That is not the way the law is written. … [T]hat's been misread. And it was fact-checked at the last debate. It's not the case. It's not true. That's not what the law says.”

After the debate, as members of the media sought new ways to cope with Walz’s........

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