On Wednesday, Bluestem posted Tuesday, Prinsburg City Council heard Tim Miller propose PLAM Action anti-abortion ordinance, reporting in part:
One retiring state representative, Tim Miller, R-Prinsburg, now an employee of PLAM Action, is working on another approach to ending reproductive freedom in Minnesota: local ordinances. Back at the end of August, Bluestem posted Retiring state rep Miller to push unconstitutional local ordinances for new PLAM Action job.
At Willmar Radio, JP Cola reported Wednesday in Prinsburg City Council hears proposed anti-abortion ordinance. . .
There's nothing up yet on the website of the small Minnesota city of 561 people west of Minneapolis on Minnesota State Highway 7. Wikipedia notes:
Prinsburg is known as one of Minnesota's most conservative cities.[10] The local school district (Common School District 815[11]) is one of two public school districts in Minnesota that do not operate a public school. There is only a private religious school (Central Minnesota Christian School) in Prinsburg.
Perhaps Miller is wise to start at home.
Note: According to the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission "Communities" page for Prinsburg, the information about schools in Prinsburg varies from Wikipedia:
Prinsburg is a part of Independent School District No. 2180, otherwise known as MACCRAY (Maynard, Clara City, Raymond) Public Schools – Home of the Wolverines! Another option is for students to attend Central Minnesota Christian School, a newly-renovated private school for Kindergarten through 12th graders, located right in Prinsburg.
However, a search of "Prinsburg" "815" and "2022" produces results in the Minnesota Department of Education database.
On Thursday, KTOE posted a Minnesota News Network article, Prinsburg in west-central MN is “launch site” for new anti-abortion strategy:
The small west-central Minnesota town of Prinsburg is where pro-life forces have launched their campaign to bring a Texas strategy to Minnesota: local ordinances that allow citizens to sue any medical provider who performs an abortion. Outgoing State Representative Tim Miller, who works for Pro-Life Action Ministries, says the goal is to have “life ordinances” in as many Minnesota communities as possible, but to “do this right”:
“We want the community to be fully behind this. This is not just trying to get into a community, get a city council to vote for something and pass it, (and) move on to the next city. We want the city to embrace this.”
Some analysts say such ordinances would be unconstitutional under the Minnesota Supreme Court decision (Doe -v- Gomez) that legalized abortion. Top Democratic lawmakers are talking about putting abortion rights into state law as extra insurance. Miller says if they do, they would also have to pass a law to override any local ordinances — which he says would be much more difficult politically.
As we noted in Tuesday, Prinsburg City Council heard Tim Miller propose PLAM Action anti-abortion ordinance, outgoing New Republican Caucus member Miller and the new Minnesota House Republican Minority Leader Lisa DeMuth both authored "fetal heartbeat" bills that would effectively block abortions early in pregnancy. Neither bill went anywhere in the DFL-controlled house.
Will the Republican caucus defend such ordinances?
Earlier in August, Bluestem reported in Retiring state rep Miller to push unconstitutional local ordinances for new PLAM Action job:
We last left anti-reproductive-freedom evangelist representative Tim Miller, R-Prinsburg at a tent meeting in Tall grass prairie? State representative Tim Miller goes to Moorhead for grassroots organizing.
Now he's center stage at Willmar Radio in the Learfield Wire Service report at Willmar Radio, Pro Life Action Ministries encouraging individual towns to reject abortion:
(Prinsburg, MN) -- A pro-life group is readying a different strategy to try to ban abortion in Minnesota. Retiring state Representative Tim Miller from Prinsburg, who now works for Pro Life Action Ministries, says the plan is to go community-by-community. Miller says they’re going to be attempting to pass pro-life ordinances in communities, saying ‘no abortions in this town’ -- which he’s calling a “grassroots effort.” . . .
That seems to be the PLAM Action press release part of the story.
But there's more--what my high school journalism teacher called a "moral tag":
Hamline University analyst David Schultz says such local ordinances would be unconstitutional under the Minnesota Supreme Court decision in the Doe-V-Gomez case.
That pesky state constitution.
We'll continue to keep an eye out for places beyond Minnesota's most conservative city to see if the model ordinance gets offered anywhere else.
Related posts
- Tuesday, Prinsburg City Council heard Tim Miller propose PLAM Action anti-abortion ordinance
- Retiring state rep Miller to push unconstitutional local ordinances for new PLAM Action job.
- Tall grass prairie? State representative Tim Miller goes to Moorhead for grassroots organizing
- Retiring Rep. Tim Miller will work for Brian Gibson at Pro-Life Action Ministries sister group
- We won't have Tim Miller to kick around anymore--at least as a MN House member
- New House Republican Tim Miller shares unique understanding of gas tax in legislative update
- State rep Tim Miller: MN state public officials beholden to radical anti-livestock enviro groups
Photo: The Prinsburg town sign. Photo by Dennis Benson, via Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission "Communities" page for Prinsburg.
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