Minnesota has advanced legislation that would shield local providers and their out-of-state patients from action by states that punish those seeking or providing abortions.
, who wrote the House legislation. “Providers now have to be concerned about the type of health care they provide and whether they will be prosecuted for giving patients the reproductive health care that they need.”
GOP lawmakers called the bill an attempt to impose Minnesota legislation on other states. “This is an extreme bill that disregards the priority of the rule of law in exchange for ensuring only the lives of wanted children are allowed to happen,” said state Rep. Peggy Scott.The bill would require patients to consent before Minnesota health care providers release any reproductive health records, even if other states issue subpoenas.
Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, a nonprofit, said its Minnesota clinic now regularly sees patients from states that have strict restrictions on abortion, such as Texas, Iowa, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The overturning ofplayed a role in the surge, said spokesman Jared Lathrop, who called Minesota’s proposed safe harbor bill “exactly what we need.”Twenty-six percent of patients seeking care at the alliance’s Minnesota clinic last year were nonresidents, more than double the figure in 2019.
California last year enacted legislation that prevents companies and law enforcement from cooperating with other states that seek to target patients who
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