Alliance for a Better Minnesota Launches Second TV Ad Against Scott Jensen

MINNESOTA - Today, Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund released their second anti-Scott Jensen TV ad of 2022. The spot features a Minnesota OB-GYN reacting to Jensen’s extreme plan to ban abortion in Minnesota if he becomes governor.

“Scott Jensen said that he would try to ban abortion in Minnesota and even previously said that he wanted to ban abortion without exceptions for rape or incest. His extreme plan would be devastating for Minnesotans who deserve the right to control our own bodies and lives,“ said Marissa Luna, Executive Director of Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund. “Minnesotans deserve a leader who will reduce barriers to and protect access to safe, legal abortion. Scott Jensen’s anti-choice extremism is wildly out of touch with the needs of Minnesotans.”

Earlier this month, Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund released a TV spot featuring three Minnesota women reacting to Jensen in his own words as he threatened to ban abortion in Minnesota. As well as a slate of digital ads illuminating the harm Scott Jensen’s extreme anti-abortion plan would inflict on Minnesotans.

In an MPR interview in March 2022, Scott Jensen said that he would ban abortion in Minnesota without exceptions for rape or incest.

Jensen even said he’d throw a party after restricting access to abortion. In a video from a St.Thomas College Republicans meeting in December 2021, Scott Jensen said, "If I get a chance to sign a pro-life piece of legislation, we're not just going to sign it, we're going to have a party."

Scott Jensen has a long anti-choice record in the Minnesota Senate and supported legislation in 2017 with restrictive licensing guidelines for abortion facilities. And he voted to restrict access to abortions by defunding organizations that perform abortions and receive taxpayer funding.

Jensen also received a 100% rating from an extreme anti-choice organization, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life.

Scott Jensen’s running mate, Matt Birk, is just as extreme.

In a video from June 2022 of Matt Birk speaking at a National Right to Life conference, he celebrated the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 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 get able to get abortions and said that "if a woman is unexpectedly pregnant, she could be the answer to someone's prayer."=

In the same speech, Matt Birk promised that he and Scott Jensen would work to pass laws that ban abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. Scott Jensen defended Birk’s comments in an interview on WCCO and praised Matt Birk’s refusal to “back off” from his extreme anti-choice positions on abortion.

Scott Jensen and Matt Birk’s extreme stances on abortion are at odds with the sixty percent of Minnesota voters who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases and sixty-five percent who oppose new severe restrictions on abortion.

Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund also launched WrongForMinnesota.com to highlight Jensen’s extreme stances and out-of-touch policies on issues from abortion to education.

Paid for by the Alliance For A Better Minnesota Action Fund and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.