Two weeks ago, Republican leadership in the Minnesota Senate introduced a bill to ban state funding for abortion, and on Monday, two more bills with identical language were introduced in the Senate and another in the Minnesota House.
NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota endorsed Mark Dayton, DFL candidate for governor this week. NARAL is a political action group that “uses the political process to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices.”…
Abortion politics got injected into the process of passing GAMC, a health care program for childless adults in Minnesota living below the poverty line. As the Minnesota House was set to pass the a bill to extend the program…
Through the Positive Alternatives program, the state of Minnesota is paying for programs that encourage women who are pregnant or think they may be pregnant to forgo abortion. But according to experts, some of these taxpayer-funded programs are intentionally misleading women in crisis by spreading inaccurate information about reproductive health options. And a large amount of money in the program goes to overtly religious organizations, some that include Bible study among their grant-funded activities.
Saying it protects the free market, U.S. Sen. Al Franken sounded optimistic in a speech today about the chances for preserving net neutrality by law. “For the first time, it looks like we might actually do this,” Franken told the…
Minnesota’s largest anti-abortion group says state-funded anti-abortion programs are responsible for a drop in the number of abortions among low-income women. If the group’s assertion is correct, the programs cost taxpayers more than $200,000 per woman successfully treated.
A reproductive health bill being considered in the Minnesota Legislature this year states that the government has no business interfering with the constitutionally protected privacy rights set forth in Roe v. Wade. While presumptive gubernatorial candidates Sens. John Marty and Tom Bakk are among the bill’s co-authors, staunchly pro-life Gov. Tim Pawlenty is unlikely to sign the bill should it get to his desk.
While the country turned its fickle eyes to Minnesota’s suddenly compelling 6th Congressional District contest, the race for the state’s 3rd District didn’t stop being hot. Over the last two days, both major parties’ congressional committees unveiled new TV ads. Big male guns vouched for the Republican candidate, state Rep. Erik Paulsen, and big female guns tried to widen a gender gap for DFLer Ashwin Madia — while heaping derision on another female office-holder, state Rep. Michele Bachmann. All this and more, with video and details about tonight’s candidate debate in Edina, after the jump.
I couldn’t help notice a different feel in the air at the Minnesota Choice Coalition’s celebration of the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Oh, on the surface it was what you’d expect from a fancy dinner at International…
NARAL Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights advocacy group, saw improvement in Minnesota and around the country in 2007. But a new report issued by the organization indicates that in Minnesota, there’s still room…
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