PRINSBURG, Minn. – This west-central Minnesota village may be on the cusp of outlawing abortions – even though state law allows abortions. The draft of a proposed ordinance was put on the Town Council’s agenda for December 2. Mayor Roger Ahrenholz has not returned media queries about the origins of the proposal. The ordinance runs eight pages of small print and is replete with legal citations and “wherefor” and :therefore” lines. Ahrenholz is a banker, not a lawyer. It’s believed the document was created by either the anti-abortion St. Thomas More Society of St. Paul or the Pro-Life Action Ministries of Chicago. This speculation is that the anti-abortion ordinance is being planted to be an under-the-radar ploy. The language purports a new legal theory that the U.S. Supreme Court could call on to bolster its new anti-abortion ruling.
Prinsburg profile
Prinsburg, population 520, is known as one of Minnesota’s most conservative communities. Its state-listed School District 815 is a shell that has no school. The only Prinsburg school is Central Minnesota Christian School. The town is in Kandiyohi County. The area is consistently Republican, oing for for Trump in 2016 and 2020. For Congress it’s gone for Republican Tom Emmer and before him for Michele Bachmann. Pinsburg is 17 miles southwest of Willmar.