HF1 enacts that every individual possesses a fundamental right to autonomously make decisions regarding their reproductive health, including the fundamental right to utilize or decline reproductive healthcare and that every individual who becomes pregnant retains a fundamental right to either proceed with the pregnancy and childbirth or to seek an abortion, and to independently determine how to exercise this inherent right.
The Minnesota State House of Representatives passed HF1 on January 19, 2023 by a vote of 69 to 65. We have assigned pluses to the nays because states should do the opposite and act to ban abortion and guarantee the right to life for all persons. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.