It's a bit of an old story in more ways than one, but the Scott Jensen's struggles with defining "medical freedom" continue.
Just about a a week and a half ago, Minnesota Reformer's Michelle Griffith provided A timeline of Scott Jensen’s shifting abortion stance.
At the Rochester Post Bulletin. John Molseed reported last Sunday in Jensen touts medical freedom in Rochester visit:
Republican candidate for governor Scott Jensen said Sunday patients and their doctors deserve freedom to make choices in their treatments.
Jensen was speaking generally and about COVID-19 treatments but didn’t clarify if his remarks apply to a woman's right to abortion care. . . .
Whether that freedom would apply to women seeking abortion care or physicians performing abortion procedures, Jensen said the issue isn’t part of the upcoming November election.
“The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled on that,” he said.
However, Jensen said if he was elected he would address those concerns.
“That will be part of the discussion,” Jensen said. “But I think, for Minnesota, it’s clearly not on the ballot, but what is on the ballot is to fight inflation, crime and education.”
At the Star Tribune, Matt Delong reports in Six key takeaways from this week's Minnesota Poll:
The new poll found DFL Gov. Tim Walz holds a comfortable but not overwhelming 7-percentage point lead over his Republican opponent, former state Sen. Scott Jensen. But with 10% of voters undecided, this race could potentially swing in either direction.
Perhaps the new survey's most striking finding was the polarization by gender. Walz enjoys a 20-percentage point lead among women but is trailing by eight percentage points with men. . . .
Surely, making abortion something to talk about after the election is so going to make women voters confident in casting a ballot for this cat.
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Photo: Jensen pointing at the Rochester Minnesota skyline, d Chaska physician, speaks to a crowd of nearly 100 people at the Kathy's Pub rooftop in downtown Rochester Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. Photo by John Molseed / Post Bulletin.
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