Prohibits funding for abortion for low-income women on state-funded medical assistance
- Discriminates against low-income women
- Endangers health of women
- MN constitutional guarantees right to use medical assistance for abortion
- Poses undue burden on constitutional rights of women to seek abortion
- Denies right-to-privacy and choice between doctor and patient
- Legislates women's healthcare
- As Minnesota funds pregnancy care it should also fund abortion care
- Bill such as these have been shown not to decrease abortion but to encourage later term abortions and less safe abortions
Status:
Passed House and Senate
Vetoed by Gov. Dayton
