Tim Walz Gave Almost $100K in COVID-19 Funds to ‘Abortion Doula’ Trainers

Presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz directed almost $100,000 in COVID-19 relief funds to an organization specializing in “abortion doula” services, state contracts show.

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, spent almost $2 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds without the approval of the state Legislature, using his emergency powers, according to the Minnesota-based outlet Alpha News.

Part of those funds went to SPIRAL Collective, a “reproductive justice nonprofit” that describes itself as a “queer, trans, disabled, BIPOC lead organization committed to the values of reproductive justice and decolonial practices.”

SPIRAL Collective received about $97,000 between two contracts with the state to provide “current information on COVID-19 effects related to the maternal-child population by building an online community for families to receive resources and support,” according to contracts published by Minnesota state Senate Republicans in 2021.

The first contract began July 15, 2020, and ended in December 2020, and the second contract began February 2021 and ended June 30, 2021. (Read more from “Tim Walz Gave Almost $100K in COVID-19 Funds to ‘Abortion Doula’ Trainers” HERE)