Bachmann to make 1st post-race Minn. appearance

Iowa caucuses
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, center, with her husband Marcus Bachmann, right, and Iowa State Senator Brad Zaun, her new campaign chairman, left, addresses the media Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011 at her headquarters in Urbandale, Iowa.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- For the first time since leaving the White House race, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is appearing at a public event in Minnesota.

The congresswoman was scheduled Sunday to take part in an anti-abortion rally at the Minnesota Capitol. The annual event by Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life typically draws thousands; it's held on the anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

Bachmann has had few public events in Minnesota in the past half-year, when her focus was on a GOP presidential campaign. She dropped out of the race after finishing sixth in Iowa's leadoff caucuses in early January.

Bachmann hasn't announced whether she'll campaign for a fourth congressional term representing suburbs north and east of the Twin Cities.

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