UnRestrict Minnesota Reproductive Freedom Legislative Agenda
Building on historic progress — and realizing an expansive vision for reproductive and gender freedom in Minnesota
Legislative Priorities
For years, we’ve seen anti-abortion state legislators push dangerous bills that would require health care providers to spread misinformation, interfere in private medical decisions, and funnel taxpayer dollars to deceptive anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers. Meanwhile, Minnesota abortion providers are stretched thin, struggling to meet rising demand from out-of-state patients while facing funding shortfalls.
And the threats don’t stop there. Project 2025, the policy blueprint for a second Trump administration, outlines plans to effectively ban abortion nationwide — revoking FDA approval for abortion medications, criminalizing abortion-related shipments, and creating a surveillance system to track and punish those seeking or providing care.
That’s why we’re at the Capitol and on the ground, working as a coalition to protect and expand reproductive freedom in Minnesota.
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1. Fortify Protections for Reproductive Freedom
Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment
Vicious attacks on reproductive health care, immigrant rights, and transgender rights have caused terror in our communities. Passing the ERA would make it clear, in the most tangible of ways, that our core values as a state are fairness, equality, and justice for everyone.
The Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment would offer everyone the strongest possible protections against discrimination by the state based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, or sex, including protections for abortion access. Currently, Minnesota’s constitution doesn’t guarantee equal rights based on sex or gender, leaving us vulnerable to attacks on our reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. Without the ERA, future lawmakers or judges could strip away our rights, as we’ve seen happen in states without constitutional protections.
Bill Numbers: SF 437 / HF 501
Chief Authors: Sen. Mary Kunesh, Rep. Leigh Finke
2. Remove Roadblocks to Accessible and Affordable Abortion Care
Reproductive Health Equity Fund
As the federal government freezes funds, withholds Medicaid payments from abortion providers including Planned Parenthood, and continues attacks on reproductive freedom, the abortion care ecosystem in Minnesota is at a breaking point. In 2025, Robbinsdale Clinic, P.A., closed permanently — naming insufficient MinnesotaCare and Medical Assistance reimbursements as a core reason. Funding will bring needed support to sustain providers, help to ensure that patients can continue to get care, and will better empower Minnesotans of all incomes to make their own reproductive health care decisions.
Bill Number: SF 1890 / HF 1278
Chief Authors: Sen. Lindsey Port, Rep. Mike Frieberg
3. Advance Reproductive Justice
Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Grant (SRHS) Funding
The work done at the legislature to secure and allocate funding for reproductive health care clinics has been essential — but that funding is not permanently guaranteed and is currently at risk. After significant cuts made last year, we need the legislature to refuse any additional cuts to SHRS grants. SHRS funding allowed tens of thousands of Minnesotans to receive contraceptive counseling, STI tests, and sexual health education. Publicly supported clinics also save taxpayers on average around $7 per dollar spent. Please refuse any additional cuts to SHRS funding.
ICE Out of Clinics and Child Care Facilities
During the last months, federal agents in our state have consistently targeted child care and health care facilities — sowing fear in communities and making it impossible for many to access needed care and for trusted providers to go to work. For example, Planned Parenthood clinics in Minnesota reported a nearly 10% increase in no-shows during the peak of Operation Metro Surge. We need protections for sensitive places so that every person can get the care that they need and children can learn and grow in safe environments.
- Limiting federal agent access to child care facilities (SF 3616 / HF 3415)
- Limiting federal agent access to health care facilities (SF 4242 / HF 4184)
Require Insurance Coverage for Reproductive Healthcare Services
Reproductive and maternal health care is health care. Insurance providers should not be able to deny services that allow us to build our families the way we choose, improve maternal health outcomes, and prevent and screen for cancer.
- Require coverage of infertility diagnoses and treatment (SF 1961/ HF 1768)
- Require coverage for doula services (SF 3768 / HF 3779)
- Require coverage for over-the-counter (OTC) contraceptives and vasectomies (SF 1054 / HF 774 and SF 1752 / HF 1485)
- Require coverage for PAP tests (SF 3716 / HF 3789)