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Abortion in Minnesota Neither banned nor protected? (Original Post) question everything Dec 2022 OP
Not by policy/legislation. The state constitution protects it as a right. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2022 #1
Not true. It's protected by a 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court decision, Doe v. Gomez, Ocelot II Dec 2022 #2

Ocelot II

(115,686 posts)
2. Not true. It's protected by a 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court decision, Doe v. Gomez,
Tue Dec 13, 2022, 04:35 PM
Dec 2022

holding that "the right of privacy under the Minnesota Constitution encompasses a woman’s right to decide to terminate her pregnancy." It's possible that at some future date more conservative justices could end up on the state court and could overturn Doe v. Gomez, as SCOTUS overturned Roe on the federal level, but with Dems now controlling both houses of the state legislature, I think it's likely that they will enact statutory protection to prevent that from happening.

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