Minnesota “Freedom”
Tim Walz claims that “here in Minnesota, we trust people to make their own decisions” and thus have an “ironclad right to reproductive freedom.”
IN FACT, Walz repeatedly flouted people’s rights to make their own decisions by locking them down, setting up a Covid snitch line, and enacting mask mandates. Meanwhile, he calls the wanton killing of human beings “freedom.” Here are the specifics:
- In March 2020, Walz issued an executive order that commanded “all persons currently living within the State of Minnesota” to “stay at home or in their place of residence except to engage” in “activities and critical sector work” specified by him.
- In the same month, Walz established a dedicated hotline and email for Minnesotans to report each other for violating his Covid dictates.
- In July 2020, Walz issued an executive order demanding that nearly everyone “must wear a face covering in indoor businesses and indoor public settings” and also requiring virtually all “workers” to “wear face coverings outdoors when it is not possible to maintain social distancing.”
- In November 2020, Walz issued an executive order dialing back his “phased reopening” by prohibiting or restricting “social gatherings and the operations of a variety of businesses, including in-person dining businesses, indoor event and entertainment venues, indoor sports facilities, and fitness establishments.”
- In August 2021, Walz began requiring “state agency employees” to “show proof of vaccination or participate in regular testing before returning to the workplace.”
- None of the edicts above — widely enacted by government officials like Walz — were supported by “evolving science.” Instead, they were enacted with callous disregard for readily available scientific facts, and as a result, countless people were killed and harmed physically, financially, educationally, and emotionally.
- While stripping people of their freedoms under the guise of pseudoscience, Walz is misapplying the term “reproductive freedom” to sanction the killing of humans after reproduction has already taken place.
- The Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health states that “human reproduction” is “the process by which the male’s sperm unites with the female’s oocyte, creating a new life.”
- Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia states, “At the moment the sperm cell of the human male meets the ovum of the female and the union results in a fertilized ovum (zygote), a new life has begun.”
- The embryology textbook Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects states that “the zygote and early embryo are living human organisms.”
- The neuroscience book Emergent Brain Dynamics: Prebirth to Adolescence states that “improved noninvasive imaging methods” are needed to better study the brains of “pre-birth humans.”
- When the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute surveyed 1,209 woman at 11 abortion clinics in 2004, it found that 4% of them said their main reason for getting an abortion was their personal health, 3% said it was because of possible problems affecting the health of their unborn child, and less than 1% said it was because of rape or incest.
- The Constitution is clear that “freedom” doesn’t mean the right to wantonly slaughter other human beings, even if they are dependent on you before or after birth.
