Posted on 06/26/2022 12:53:55 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
At the State Capitol in St. Paul — voices of dissent in the abortion debate.
Abortion-rights advocates held a rally there Saturday afternoon.
“It breaks my heart that we took a step back 50 years in time, when we need to be progressing forward,” declared Stephanie Wilson, from Fridley.
Anti-abortion advocates, rallied there in the morning, just hours before.
“The fight is not over by any means,” says Jenna Schabert, with the group Students for Life. “Roe being overturned means that the right to abortion is decided by the states rather than the country, so it’s no longer at the federal level.”
Protests continued outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. following Friday’s high court ruling.
Anti-abortion advocates are calling the decision a victory.
“We’ve been working on this for actually more than 50 years, before Roe v. Wade, working to protect unborn children.” Says Carol Tobias, President of the National Right-to-Life Committee.
In Minnesota, access to abortion is protected under a 1995 State Supreme Court ruling.
On Saturday, Governor Tim Walz issued an executive order, meant to protect women coming to Minnesota for the procedure.
The order also prohibits state agencies from aiding any investigation into someone seeking reproductive health care services that are legal in Minnesota.
“The decision yesterday didn’t do a damn thing to prevent abortions,” Walz told reporters. “All it did was make it more dangerous and less accessible, especially to the people who need it. [The order] states that we will use all authority of this office to decline to extradite people who are charged under other states’ laws that criminalize providing or obtaining reproductive health care services.”
But some abortion-rights advocates worry about fallout from other states.
“Is the woman who comes here has it done, is she going to go back and be prosecuted?” wonders Toni Wenzell, from Columbia Heights. “Are they going to honor Walz’s law or ruling?”
Legal experts say it’s still up for debate whether a person returning to their home state can be prosecuted after getting an abortion elsewhere, where the procedure is legal.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has pledged to fight to support those traveling to the state for care.
“What I’m saying is that that right will be protected here,” Ellison said, at a Friday news conference. “If they go back, we’ll go to the state they came from and say ‘You don’t have any jurisdiction to prosecute or punish this person for what they did lawfully in Minnesota.’”
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jenson has issued a statement, acknowledging that abortion is legal in Minnesota.
But he says he wants to seek out alternatives like universal adoption, family planning measures, and counseling.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS reached out to a Jensen spokesperson for a specific comment about the governor’s executive order, but has not heard back.
Meanwhile, anti-abortion activists say they’re not going anywhere.
“Make sure we have a strong presence in all of the states,” Schabert says. “Regardless of whether it’s a blue state, red state, swing state. We need a pro-life presence in every single state.”
Says the guy from California...
😉
Kavanaugh even addressed the issue in his concurring opinion, that there's nothing to prevent women from traveling out of state for an abortion and it's not even "especially difficult as a constitutional matter" he made a point to stress.
Any state that tries to pass laws preventing women from traveling out of state for abortions will, at the very least, not have Kavanaugh on board, and probably none of the eight other justices.
Walz was one of the democrat governors who blocked access to low cost medicine that could have saved thousands of people’s lives. A babies life means nothing to him.
Now that the GOP-e refused to fight mandated shutdowns, the Left no longer needs the court.
Laws by Executive Order are here to stay.
Unless the GOP-e gets off their butts and fights it.
Good, Let MN tax payers pay for it. Sooner or later they will get tired of it.
Don’t you love the euphemisms for abortion?
And the gun control supporting gope loser for governor can’t be reached for comment
Go figure.
“...Legal experts say it’s still up for debate whether a person returning to their home state...”
All the way to the midterms.
“when we need to be progressing forward,” declared Stephanie Wilson, from Fridley.”
How would we “progress forward”? Kill them up to age 3?
No/Yes. She is just prohibited in having it done in the state she lives in, period. She still ha the right to travel to another state that provides legal abortion. A state cannot prosecute for any action that is legal in another state. Just like anyone can travel to another state and smoke pot if it is legal there, but they cannot bring pot back to their state if it is still illegal in the state they reside in.
And “kill states” are born
I lived in Duluth for 17 long cold winters,the saying I used came from my late xFIL..
“That right will be protected here,” Ellison said. Everyone knows that Ellison is promoting the murder of innocent babies in the wombs of mothers and the breaking of Commandments #6 and #9. Promoting murder and falsehoods is not prudent.
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