'Outrageous And Heartbreaking': Rep. Lippert On Roe V. Wade Overturn

NORTHFIELD, MN — Minnesota State Representative for 20B Todd Lippert reacted Friday to the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe V. Wade.

"#roeoverturned is outrageous and heartbreaking," he tweeted. "Trusting women with their reproductive health decisions is fundamental to dignity and equality."

"My daughters, and yours, are less equal today and less free. We must act to dismantle the power of extreme minority rule."

U.S. Representative Angie Craig also responded to the ruling.

"Today's ruling is a calamitous decision that upends decades of precedent and rolls back fundamental rights for millions of Americans," Craig said. "And it is just the beginning of government overreach into the private, personal decisions of American families."
Planned Parenthood's Apple Valley clinic is reminding anyone who calls that "no matter what you're hearing, abortion is still legal in our region."

Planned Parenthood Minnesota Advocate — the action fund for the organization's work in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota — said it will hold a vigil at 5:30 p.m. Friday in Minneapolis to "grieve and process this monumental reversal of our rights and what this will mean."

"Every person deserves the fundamental right to control their own body," Planned Parenthood Minnesota Advocate wrote on Facebook. "We must march, mobilize, organize, text, call, write, shout — do everything we possibly can to show support for safe, legal abortion."

The court's repudiation of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and a subsequent case on fetal liability, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, was expected. In May, Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s majority opinion draft was leaked to Politico, setting the stage for a seismic shift in abortion rights.

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At least 26 states are certain or likely to make it nearly impossible for a woman to get a procedure that was legal for her mother, grandmother or even great-grandmother, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research and policy group.With the decision, abortion will be illegal or a nearly impossible procedure to get in about half of U.S. states, including large swaths of the South, Midwest, and Northern Plains.

Read the full Supreme Court decision here.

Planned Parenthood locations in Wisconsin were forced to temporarily suspend all abortion services due to Friday's Supreme Court ruling, according to Tanya Atkinson, president of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin.

"Today, our daughters have less rights than their mothers, less rights than their grandmothers. This is absolutely unconscionable," Atkinson said.

Planned Parenthood's Wisconsin clinics are still working to serve people seeking abortions, Atkinson said.

Wisconsin clinics "can help people navigate to a state where abortion remains safe and legal, where people's healthcare decisions are respected," Atkinson said.

Clinics can also provide aftercare to people who are returning home to Wisconsin after receiving an abortion, Atkinson said.