abetterminnesota.org is the website of a DFL leaning news and commentary outlet.
In August of this year, it published: ICYMI: Matt Birk Caught Making Hurtful Comments about Women and Abortion, which stated in part:
Birk is even on the record arguing that Planned Parenthood is next to the KKK as the most racist organization in America. He also said rape victims shouldn’t be able to get an abortion, a callous position considering that Scott Jensen has previously threatened to ban abortion in Minnesota without exceptions for rape or incest.
And it doesn’t stop there. Since joining the Jensen ticket and following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Birk has doubled down on his attack on reproductive rights, women, and survivors of rape.
The Epitome of an Anti-Choice Extremist
Recently, a video surfaced of Matt Birk making wildly offensive comments about women and abortion and promising to pass laws that ban abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest at a National Right to Life conference in June 2022, the day that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
In the video, Birk celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. He compared safe, legal abortion to slavery and said, “women used to not be able to vote, now we let them drive.”
He also reiterated that he doesn’t believe that rape victims should be able to get abortions and said that “if a woman is unexpectedly pregnant, she could be the answer to someone’s prayer.”
Birk also repeated his and Scott Jensen’s intentions to ban abortion in Minnesota with no exceptions for rape or incest.
To make it worse, conservative gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen defended Matt Birk’s wildly offensive comments about women and abortion. In an interview on WCCO, Jensen praised Birk’s refusal to “back off” from his extreme anti-choice positions on abortion.
Of substantial interest, the sentence beginning, " Recently, a video surfaced of Matt Birk making wildly offensive comments[...]," is informative of who Birk and the Minnesota GOP are, so readers, please follow that link to see the video has been scrubbed.
They decided it was inconvenient for voters to have access to the truth. So they scrubbed.
Earlier posts document website scrubbing by statewide Minnesota candidates, and by the GOP candidate in MN CD2, the latter being via a rewrite of truth between the last election cycle and this one.
It would be great if all politicians could be trusted as consistent, day to day, election cycle to cycle, but some need to be closely watched. (Guess which party.)