Minnesota, seen as abortion haven, still funds 'crisis pregnancy centers'

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/01/23/minnesota-seen-as-abortion-haven-still-funds-crisis-pregnancy-centers

Fifty years after Roe v. Wade was decided and seven months after it was overturned, Gov. Tim Walz is set to debut his latest budget that may include the possible end of a little-known 18-year-old program that supports “crisis pregnancy centers,” which are nonmedical anti-abortion organizations that deceive pregnant people and discourage abortion.

Since 2005, Minnesota has given over $3 million in taxpayer money every grant cycle to 25 of these centers under the “positive alternatives grant,” a program created by former Gov. Tim Pawlenty to discourage abortion.

Now with a DFL hold on the state, Walz says he’s ready to end the program, citing misinformation.

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This comes after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison issued a consumer alert in August against “crisis pregnancy centers” based on a 2021 study of nine states including Minnesota. He defined them as “private organizations that seek to prevent people from accessing abortion care as well as contraceptives.”

[Ocelot II]

1. Shut 'em down, Tim!