A Minnesota town has backed away from a proposal to let people sue abortion providers, including organizations that provide abortion drugs by mail, after the state attorney general warned that the plan was unconstitutional.
FILE - In this May 27, 2020, file photo, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison answers questions during a news conference in St. Paul, Minn. The Minnesota town of Prinsburg has backed away from a proposal to let its residents sue abortion providers and organizations that provide abortion drugs by mail after state Attorney General Keith Ellison warned that the plan was unconstitutional. But the lawmaker behind the proposal, which is based on a Texas law, says hes not giving up.
“We are definitely moving forward,” Miller said, adding that he thinks it could even come up again in Prinsburg, Miller's western Minnesota hometown of about 500 people where he first proposed the idea last month. Miller, who was first elected in 2014, has said he did not seek reelection so he could focus on the anti-abortion movement.
“Any municipal ordinance which limits the fundamental rights of pregnant Minnesotans to receive an abortion is unconstitutional,” Ellison said last month in a letter to Prinsburg Mayor Roger Ahrenholz, noting thatunder the state constitution in 1995."No city in Minnesota has the power to restrict the right to abortion or enact conflicting regulations on health care providers."
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