What's next for abortion protections in Minnesota?
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🎧 Minnesota is a national leader for women’s participation in the workplace. And yet, we also have a
wider gender wage gap than most other states. That means women in Minnesota are consistently paid less than men. And over the past decade, we’ve made little progress in closing the wage gap. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Monday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks about the latest research on the wage gap in Minnesota and what we can do to begin to close it.
Minnesota lawmakers on Monday are set to consider a bill that would offer legal protection for out-of-state patients who travel to Minnesota for abortions and for the providers that treat them.
The move could guard both groups against laws on the books in dozens of other states where abortion is banned or heavily restricted, and where abortion providers and those seeking to terminate a pregnancy face legal penalties.
It’s the latest step by DFL leaders at the Capitol to make Minnesota a legal safe haven for abortion and it comes after lawmakers earlier this year guaranteed the right to reproductive health care — including abortion — in state law.
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