JULY 14, 2022:
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A court ruling that struck down most of Minnesota’s restrictions on abortion as unconstitutional will speed the process for clinics and patients. But providers are still studying all the implications of how the landscape will change as a result. Two key points of Monday’s (July 11, 2022) ruling are expected to have the most immediate impacts: the end of Minnesota’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period, and a requirement that both parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion. The end a rule that only physicians can perform abortions is expected to further ease access over time as other clinicians become trained.
JULY 12, 2022:
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A judge has declared most of Minnesota’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional, including the state’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that both parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion. Ramsey County Judge Thomas Gilligan on Monday (July 11, 2022) also struck down Minnesota’s requirements that only physicians can perform abortions, and that abortions after the first trimester must be performed in hospitals. Gilligan issued the ruling in a lawsuit from abortion rights groups that argued the restrictions were unconstitutional under a landmark 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling. Opponents of abortion rights are calling on Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison to appeal.