This is part four of a five-part series from MPR News examining the state of abortion in Minnesota one year after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Lynesha Caron is trying to figure out how to balance the books with a quarter of her annual budget gone.
Caron is executive director at Pregnancy Choices in Apple Valley, one of dozens of “crisis pregnancy centers” around the state that works with Minnesotans facing unplanned pregnancies. They don’t provide abortions, nor do they refer clients for abortion services. Instead, they offer pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, counseling and parenting classes.
MPR News special series: The state of abortion
As part of a broader push to ensure the right to abortion and prune laws that restricted access, the DFL-led Legislature cut $3 million in funding to such groups. There are nearly 100 centers in the state and about a third of them were receiving state funding. Now they’re preparing to take a budget hit without the state money.
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