Political Victories
"EC in the ER" This important legislation requires all hospital emergency rooms in Minnesota offer and provide emergency contraception and preventative sexually transmitted infection treatment to all survivors of sexual assault who turn to them for help. NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota worked together with the sexual assault victim/survivors community to make this law a reality. We would like to thank our friends at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the Program to Aid Victims of Sexual Assault in Duluth, and the SAFE Nurses Program. The new law went into effect August 1, 2007 Increased Support for Family Planning In the 2007 legislative session, NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota and our coalition partners in the reproductive health community were successful in securing desperately needed additional resources for the state's invaluable network of family planning and community clinics. The "Prevention First Act" brought these needed improvements: |