AG Ellison released a statement after prevailing in his motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging abortion access in Minnesota. On Wednesday, August 27, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota granted the Attorney General’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by crisis pregnancy centers and their directors and a national organization of crisis pregnancy centers, which attempted to have Minnesota’s laws protecting abortion access declared unconstitutional under the United States Constitution. 

"This latest attack on abortion access in Minnesota is a reminder that anti-choice interest groups are constantly seeking new ways to ban abortion or make reproductive healthcare services harder to obtain. For decades, those anti-choice interest groups worked to erode the abortion protections provided by Roe v. Wade until they finally found a way to eliminate those protections entirely. Now, they are trying the exact same thing at the state level. These anti-abortion interest groups are well-organized and well-funded, and they have the resources to look for every possible gap in the armor protecting abortion access in our state. We cannot allow them to succeed in that mission. I am pleased to have defeated this latest attack on abortion in Minnesota, and I will do everything in my power to defend Minnesotans’ right to reproductive healthcare.” – AG Ellison