About Our Movement

It’s time to FULLY UnRestrict Minnesota.

UnRestrict Minnesota works to protect, expand, and destigmatize access to abortion care — and all reproductive health care — in Minnesota through public education, advocacy, and the law.

Our vision is to achieve full reproductive justice, an organizing framework created by Black women where every person has the ability to decide if, when, and how to become a parent; raise children in safe and thriving communities; and have gender freedom and bodily autonomy.

We are led by a multi-racial coalition of LGBTQ+ advocates, faith communities, clinicians, activists, doctors, abortion funds, lawyers, organizers, health care clinics, doulas, and more. Learn more about our partners.

UnRestrict Minnesota is supported by the team at Gender Justice.

The Minnesota Constitution guarantees and protects 1) people’s right to decide to end a pregnancy & 2) people’s right to get abortion care without the government trying to sway them. Moreover, nearly 75% of Minnesotans across the state agree with a person’s right to access abortion care.

As attacks on access to safe, legal, and essential reproductive health care sweep through the country, now is the time to fight for equitable and accessible reproductive health care in Minnesota. Get involved now!

Our Impact

Since the launch of UnRestrict Minnesota in 2019, our broad coalition of community partners, volunteers, health care providers, and grassroots activists pushed for and won some of the strongest protections possible for abortion access in the country.

Together we were able to:

Enshrine in Minnesota law everyone’s right to make and act on their own decisions about the full range of reproductive health care options, including abortion.
Require private health insurance plans to cover abortion care.
Institute strong protections preventing out-of-state anti-abortion extremists from using out-of-state laws to attack folks who travel to Minnesota for care and Minnesotans who seek, provide, or help someone get an abortion.
Repeal the vast majority of Minnesota’s restrictions on abortion care.
Eliminate state funding for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.

The Work Ahead

Despite our wins, there is still vital work to do. Minnesotans continue to face real barriers to abortion access due to cost, travel, clinic closures, appointment availability, stigma surrounding reproductive health care, and more — barriers that disproportionately harm low-income people, people of color and indigenous/Native American people, youth, immigrants, and others excluded by policy and power.

We must come together to push for increased resources for reproductive health care in our state, fight abortion stigma, and prepare for federal attacks to abortion access.

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What Minnesotans are saying…

Abortion care is healthcare. Women are capable of making decisions about their bodies.
Sherri

Abortion is healthcare, full stop. Antiquated, extreme restrictions are not about safety or saving lives, they are about power and control over women’s bodies and lives.
Claire – St. Paul, MN

I want my children to decide when they are ready to be parents. When they are adults that are emotionally, physically & financially ready is a great time!
Leah

It’s not the government’s job to restrict our bodies. Bodily autonomy is a principle freedom.
Brynn

My abortion was where I took action, where I made the best decision for me and my family.
Elizabeth – Minneapolis, MN

I’m 56 but I want my younger sisters to have the choice! No one should tell a woman what she can do with HER BODY!!
Diane

Partners

Meet our community partners.

A multi-racial coalition of LGBTQ+ advocates, faith communities, clinicians, activists, doctors, abortion funds, lawyers, organizers, health care clinics, doulas, and more have come together to support every Minnesotan’s right to make their own decisions about whether and when to become a parent.

Learn more about each of our partner organizations, their missions, and how you can support their work.