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New regulations of pet breeders go into effect; governor previously vetoed abortion center licensing ST. PAUL — A measure to license and inspect commercial dog and cat breeders—passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mark Dayton earlier this year—went into effect on July 1. The new regulations throw into sharp relief Dayton's refusal to accept any state licensing or inspection of abortion facilities, which perform thousands of surgical procedures on Minnesota women each year. "Gov. Dayton wants to safeguard the well-being of pets, and that is admirable," said Scott Fischbach, Executive Director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for...

James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas has shown that one of the most effective counters to leftist policies and tactics is to film politicians and bureaucrats in their natural environments.Other young Americans are following his example. Eric Owens of The Daily Caller reports that one student activist has been essentially threatened with “double secret probation” for her recording of a Democratic congressman’s response to question about a pro-life group.Click HERE for video. Collin Peterson, the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 7th District since 1991, no doubt expected softball questions and happy glad-handing when he visited Evangelical Lutheran-affiliated Concordia College last...

ST. PAUL – Nearly four thousand Minnesotans marched at the State Capitol today to urge lawmakers to ban taxpayer funded abortions. They also called for a prohibition on abortions after the point at which an unborn child can feel pain. The annual Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) March for Life commemorates the millions of lives lost to abortion. The 2011 MCCL March for Life marked the 38th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Jan. 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions that have resulted in the deaths of more than 555,000 unborn Minnesota children (Minnesota Department...

A pro-life group is upset members of a Minnesota House committee gutted a bill to provide abortion alternatives to women. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life representatives testified before the House Housing Policy and Finance and Public Health Finance Committee only to see the panel remove almost all the funding. Committee members dismissed the pleas on behalf of pregnant women in need voted 6-5 to strip most funding for the Positive Alternatives Act. MCCL Legislative Associate Andrea Rau complained about the vote in comments to LifeNews.com. “This heartless attempt to eliminate resources and support for pregnant women exposes the contempt of...

A pro-life group in Minnesota says it's prepared to lead the charge against a key state Supreme Court decision forcing the state's taxpayers to foot the bill for abortions for poor women. The state Supreme Court in a 1995 case called Doe v. Gomez required the state's health department to pay for abortions, despite lawmakers voting to prohibit that from occurring in virtually all situations. Scott Fischbach, the director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, called the case his state's Roe v. Wade and told the Associated Press that working to overturn the decision will be his group's next main...