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MPR News with Angela Davis
Angela Davis and Gretchen Brown

Is 2024 the year Minnesota passes an Equal Rights Amendment?

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Betty Folliard (left), founder of ERA Minnesota, and Hopkins representative as a DFL member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002, and Rep. Kaohly Her (right), St. Paul representative in the state legislature and chief author of the state Equal Rights Amendment Bill in the Minnesota House, at the Kling Public Media Center on Tuesday.
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We’re approaching the two-year anniversary of the end of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that guaranteed the right to an abortion for half a century.

The fall of Roe has heightened the intensity of a battle over reproductive rights across the country. And here in Minnesota, it’s inspiring activists to continue to pursue an Equal Rights Amendment that would enshrine gender protection and reproductive justice into the state Constitution.

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MPR News Host Angela Davis (left) talks with Rep. Kaohly Her (center), St. Paul representative in the state legislature and chief author of the state Equal Rights Amendment Bill in the Minnesota House, and Betty Folliard (right), founder of ERA Minnesota, and Hopkins representative as a DFL member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002, in an MPR News studio on Tuesday.
Nikhil Kumaran | MPR News

MPR News host Angela Davis talked about where the Equal Rights Amendment stands in the Minnesota legislature today and the state of gender inequality in 2024.

Guests:  

  • Betty Folliard is the founder of ERA Minnesota. She represented Hopkins as a DFL member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002.  

  • Rep. Kaohly Her has represented St. Paul in the state legislature since 2019. She is a chief author of the state Equal Rights Amendment Bill in the Minnesota House.

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