MINNEAPOLIS — Top Minnesota Republican candidates are treading carefully on the issue of abortion since the fall of Roe v. Wade, trying to balance the interests of steadfast anti-abortion activists in their party while staking out a position palatable to a broader set of voters in November.
Some have shifted their position or added emphasis to their support for abortion exceptions in cases of rape or incest. Many are trying to pivot away from the subject, arguing that abortion policy isn't going to change in Minnesota, where a 1995 state Supreme Court ruling provides constitutional protections for it.
"We have a constitutionally protected access to abortion for all women, and that's already established," GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen said in an interview at the Star Tribune booth on Tuesday. "Abortion is not on the ballot in November; what's on the ballot in November has got to be inflation, runaway crime, education, the overgrowth of government."
