Minnesota's US Senators are weighing in on the abortion debate as a leaked draft suggests the US Supreme Court has already ruled to strike down the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling that allowed access to abortion nationwide.
Any ruling by the Supreme Court does not go into effect until it is published, and there was no comment on the leak by the high court.
Senator Amy Klobuchar gave her opinion after CNN played video of President Trump's Supreme Court nominees appearing to show support for Roe.
"Woah!" Klobuchar remarked to CNN host Don Lemon. "I think that is a major problem. They said it was the law of the land, they are talking about the fact that it's been affirmed time and time again."
Klobuchar said the leaked report from Political has shocked a lot of people, but not her.
"You could see this in the way the questioning went," said Klobuchar, who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee and took part in those hearings.
During the interview on CNN, which came not long after Politico broke the story, Klobuchar said it's time for the U-S Senate should pass a law upholding a woman's right to abortion to avoid a patchwork of state laws.
"I believe the Senate needs to act and act now," she said.
Appearing on WCCO's Morning News on Monday, Minnesota's junior US Senator Tina Smith expressed hope that Roe would be upheld, saying a woman's right to have an abortion nationwide is a long-settled law.
"It's very concerning to see that this legal right is being eroded so dramatically by the Supreme Court and in states all around Minnesota," she told Vineeta Sawkar.
Smith said most Americans believe the decision on having a child rests with the person who it's happening to.
"Not everybody agrees on this, it is a complicated issue, there's a certain, sort of, freedom and autonomy that exists there," Smith said. "I don't think folks have really fully understood that this is happening.
Striking down Roe versus Wade would shift the legal decision on abortion to individual states.
In a tweet Monday night, Gov. Walz says there would be no abortion ban in Minnesota as long as he's in office.