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MN HF1

Bill

Status

Passed

1/31/2023

Primary Sponsor

Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn

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Origin

House of Representatives

93rd Legislature 2023-2024

AI Summary

  • Establishes a fundamental right to reproductive health care, defined to include contraception, sterilization, preconception care, maternity care, abortion care, family planning, fertility services, and related counseling.

  • Grants every individual the fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about their reproductive health, including the right to use or refuse reproductive health care.

  • Grants pregnant individuals the fundamental right to continue pregnancy and give birth, or to obtain an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about exercising this right.

  • Recognizes reproductive freedom as grounded in Minnesota Constitutional principles of individual liberty, personal privacy, and equality.

  • Prohibits local units of government from regulating reproductive rights in a manner more restrictive than the protections established in this section.

  • Takes effect the day following final enactment.

Legislative Description

Protect Reproductive Options Act; fundamental right to reproductive health established.

Last Action

Secretary of State Chapter 4

1/31/2023

Committee Referrals

Finance1/26/2023
Rules and Administration1/23/2023
State and Local Government Finance and Policy1/11/2023
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law1/9/2023
Health Finance & Policy1/4/2023

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