During the Trump/Harris debate Trump didn't exactly say this but he did say "her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth..." before he was cut off and interrupted by the ABC moderator Linsey Davis fact checking it as false by stating "There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.” Then they moved on to more important things like Kamala Harris, who wears a $62,000 Tiffany & Co gold necklace, telling everyone how she grew up in a middle class family.

Just for the record, Minnesota, where Walz is the governor, has no restrictions on abortion based on gestational duration according to the Guttmacher Institute. Walz also signed this law himself in January 2023 removing the many restrictions on abortion in Minnesota, making it legal through all nine months of pregnancy. So like usual they focused on a minor detail like his execution after birth comment and ignored the main point he was making.

However Trump's execution comment wasn't in the narrow sense referring to killing a baby after it was born, he was using it in a broader sense talking about another law signed by Walz on May 2023 which repeals the requirement to preserve the life and health of babies born alive after botched abortions in Minnesota. The previous law which had been in place since 1976 required “responsible medical personnel” to use “all reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice” to “preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.” The revised law, signed by Walz, replaced this requirement with a new standard of “care for the infant who is born alive.” This change effectively allowed babies born alive after botched abortions to die without medical intervention. So far 8 babies were born alive who had survived botched abortions in Minnesota and were given no medical treatment and left to die under this law signed by Walz. This is what Trump was referring to.

Anyway, the abortion issue on Trump is another red herring as Trump, Melania and JD Vance have all publicly come out in support of abortion and said any national abortion ban would be vetoed.