Rep. Knudsen speaks at town hall meeting in Hackensack

State Rep. Krista Knudsen (R) of Lakeshore in Cass County told a gathering of over 50 people in Hackensack June 22 of her concern over the moral direction of the MN state legislature in seeking to enshrine abortion without limits in the Minnesota State Constitution.

Speaking at a Legislative Town Hall forum at The Hub in Hackensack sponsored by the recently formed Cass County Chapter of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL), Knudsen said, “the legislature passed a law allowing abortion without limits in 2023, but this year they wanted to go even further and ensure that future lawmakers would be unable to protect unborn children by placing the state’s wide-open abortion law into the state’s constitution.

“Fortunately, Minnesotans weren’t fooled by pro-abortion lawmakers naming their proposal the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution. In the final tumultuous hours of this year’s session the proposal failed to pass…a huge victory for unborn babies and their moms,” said Knudson, herself a mother of four.

Knudsen warned, however, that the battle is far from over. “Minnesota’s abortion laws remain as extreme as any in the world, allowing abortions for any reason and at any time up until birth. The proponents of enshrining abortion without limits in our state’s constitution will make another effort to achieve this goal in the 2025 legislative session.

“We must re-double our efforts to defeat this attack on the unborn in the year ahead,” warned Knudsen.

In addition, Knudsen told the audience that state law used to guarantee life-saving care for infants who survive abortion, but in 2023 the legislature and governor repealed the requirement that “reasonable measures “be taken to preserve the life of the new-born infant. They replaced the requirement for lifesaving measures with a requirement for “comfort care” only, and that it apply not just to babies who survive abortion but to all babies. “Under this new language, any viable infant — whether born as a result of abortion or not — could be denied lifesaving care and allowed to die,” said Knudsen.

Noting that legislation allowing for assisted-suicide was also defeated at the 11th hour of the recent legislative session, Knudsen urged her audience “to continue to fight for the right to life of every person, from conception until natural death. The moral direction of our state must change in favor of the protection of all life, and we need your help to make that happen,” Knudsen concluded.