When St. Paul’s new City Council was sworn in on Tuesday, all of its seats were filled by pro-choice women for the first time in the city’s 170-year history.

“I think we’ve been writing this story for a while,” said Council Member HwaJeong Kim after winning election to the council in November. “To place yourself in the middle of this timeline, it feels very historic.”

Dig deeper into the history of the women on St. Paul’s City Council–paving the path from none, to one, to all in the Star Tribune.

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Gov. Tim Walz threw continued support behind the effort to make Minnesota an island of reproductive rights in the Upper Midwest, predicting 2024 will be a key year in the abortion battle that was upended when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

In a panel Monday at the St. Paul headquarters for Planned Parenthood North Central States, Walz predicted Minnesota will continue to see a surge in women coming to Minnesota to access abortions. He also backed the idea of putting an amendment on the ballot to codify abortion rights in the state Constitution. 

"This is not some weird, mean political ideology we're trying to force on people," Walz said. "These are people's lives and health care decisions that need to be made by them and their health care provider."

Federal regulations do not require emergency rooms to perform life-saving abortions if it would run afoul of state law, a federal appeals court in Texas ruled Tuesday. 

When Access to reproductive health care is threatened in the United States, a growing number of women stock up on abortion medications to keep on hand in case they need the pills in the future, new research shows.