On October 11, The Gateway Pundit headlined that Minnesota’s governor “Signs Law Allowing Murder of Babies AFTER They Are Born”, and its own first paragraph dates the signing to 2023. The law is a health bill that repealed most of a 2015 born-alive law. Read the headline as a sentence. Its subject is the governor, its verb is “Signs”, present tense, and its object is a law “Allowing Murder of Babies AFTER They Are Born”. It names no bill, clause or date. The page’s own first paragraph says Walz signed the repeal “back in 2023”. The record is plainer: SF 2995 passed May 22, 2023, and Walz signed it the next day. A present-tense verb on an old act is the tell: find the date before you feel anything. What the bill did is real and contested. It repealed the 2015 act’s six subdivisions, including civil penalties and case reporting, and changed the duty to “preserve the life and health of the born alive infant” into a duty to “care for the infant who is born alive”. The statute still calls that infant “a human person”. Health department reports cited by The Dispatch count 8 infants born alive in abortions from 2019 to 2022; none survived. No headline in the coverage reports a new law in 2026. Then the headline turns from the governor to the women behind him. “Sick Women” judges strangers by their smiles, unnamed, in a picture the page does not date; The Dispatch and Snopes illustrate their 2023-law stories with the same room and faces. That is the step from motive to nature: they cheer killing, so they are sick. The savior arrives in the last line: “We must vote in November to stop this wickedness”. The page names no race and no candidate; the feeling is left for the reader to spend.
