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Press Statements

7/22/2010
First Round of Endorsements Made

7/15/2010
Abortion being excluded from High Risk Pools

6/17/2010
Statement on FDA Advisory Panel’s Action on Emergency Contraceptive

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota answers your Frequently Asked Questions about reproductive choice:
1.  What does NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota do?
2.  Do you support certain political parties?
3.  How do I get involved?
4.  Roe v. Wade: What does it mean??
5.  Is Roe v. Wade in jeopardy?

1. What does NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota do?
NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota is a grassroots movement focused on guaranteeing every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion.

We accomplish this through public education, citizen lobbying, and pro-choice voter mobilization. Our focus is both national and statewide.

2. Do you support certain political parties?
NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota is a multi-partisan political organization. Our commitment is to support strong, pro-choice candidates regardless of political party. During the 2002 election, NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota is supporting candidates of all four major parties recognized in Minnesota: Independence, Democrat, Green, and Republican.
3. How do I get involved?
By contacting us! NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota is only as strong as its volunteers and activists. To find out how you can help, email volunteer@prochoiceminnesota.org and visit the Get Involved page.
4. Roe v. Wade: What does it mean??
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court voted 7-2 to strike down a Texas law prohibiting abortion, citing that it violated a woman’s right to privacy. This landmark decision is known as Roe v. Wade.

The Ruling Found:

  • States are forbidden to interfere with a woman’s access to abortion during the 1st trimester of pregnancy.
  • States can only regulate 2nd trimester abortions to protect a woman’s health.
  • States can ban 3rd trimester abortions except if a woman’s life is in jeopardy.
  • A fetus is not protected as a "person" under the 14th amendment.
  • A woman's right to choose is a fundamental right and has the highest level of Constitutional protection.
     
    For more information, visit our Roe v. Wade page.
  • 5. Is Roe v. Wade in jeopardy?
    Yes. In the last abortion-related case, the Supreme Court was split 5-4. It has been seven years since the last vacancy on the Supreme Court, the longest period in 178 years. George W. Bush has nominated 2 individuals to serve as Supreme Court Justices and could possibly nominate more.

    Bush has touted Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the Court's most avid opponents of Roe, as his model justices. With an anti-choice majority on the Supreme Court, a case designed to overturn Roe v. Wade would almost certainly be brought forward immediately. Because the U.S. Senate must approve judicial nominees, Bush is likely to see the newly Republican and anti-choice controlled Senate as an opportunity to push through the most anti-choice nominees he can.

    An overturning of Roe would automatically make abortion illegal in 15 states and the District of Columbia, where pre-Roe abortion bans are still on the books and would once be enforced. Fights to ban abortion would crop up in the rest of the country.

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