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Minn. lawmakers introduce bills to fund pregnancy resource centers and restore newborn-care language
Summary
Representatives Krista Knudson and Natalie Slezna Carr told a health committee meeting they will introduce bills seeking funding for pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes and to clarify legal language requiring medically necessary care for infants born alive after abortion.
State Representative Krista Knudson of House District 5A and Representative Natalie Slezna Carr of House District 3B told a Minnesota House Health Committee meeting that they will introduce bills to restore protections for newborns and to provide new grant funding for pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes.
Knudson said her bill is designed "to preserve the life and health of these brand new newborn babies," and Carr said she would introduce House File 25 at 1 p.m. in the health committee, describing it as "a supporting women bill" that would allocate $3,000,000 to pregnancy resource centers and $1,000,000 to maternity homes.
The measures discussed on the committee floor follow changes made in 2023, according to speakers, when language requiring "medically necessary care" was replaced with the word "care." Representative Carr said that change raised concerns that the statute no longer clearly requires medically…
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