Minnesota Senate Votes to Allow Abortion Without Limits: ‘Most Extreme Bill in the Country’Katherine Hamilton 30 Jan 2023
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is expected to sign a bill which will enshrine the “right” to an abortion without limits, after the state Senate voted 34-33 in favor of the bill on Saturday following 14 hours of debate.
“Today we are not just codifying Roe v. Wade or Doe v. Gomez as the author has indicated,” Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson (R-East Grand Forks) lamented. “We are enacting the most extreme bill in the country regarding youth sterilization, late term abortions and public viability for a vast array of new reproductive rights.”
The bill, called H.F. 1 or the Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act, was created to “cement in state law the right to access reproductive health care options including abortion, birth control, family planning help, and sterilization,” MPR News reported. The move makes Minnesota the first state to take legislative action to “protect abortion” following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, according to the report.
The bill’s author, Sen. Jennifer McEwen (D) said the bill enshrines abortion access, no matter what future courts decide.
“The decisions of our courts, the upholding of our fundamental human rights, are only as strong as the judges that uphold them,” McEwen said.
“We have a duty to answer the call of Minnesotans to truly protect those reproductive freedoms, to enshrine them not simply in case law, but in our statutory law,” she continued. “These are our values, this is the practice in Minnesota. This is what we believe.”
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