Rep. Angie Craig represents Minnesota’s Second Congressional District. She is fighting for working families - and for a Minnesota where every member of every family gets a fair shot. That means a future with lower health care costs and opportunities for career skills and technical training for 21st century jobs. She’ll work with anybody - and take on the Washington establishment - to get things done for her constituents.
Rep. Craig learned the value of hard work from her mother, a single mom who raised three children while earning her teaching degree. She too worked two jobs to help put herself through college. Years later, she moved to Minnesota and fell in love with the strong communities and quality of life. She and her wife Cheryl Greene have four sons – three who have already graduated from college or tech school and one who graduated from Rosemount High School in 2021 and is currently a college student. They lived in Eagan for nearly a decade and recently moved to Prior Lake. Angie attends church in Apple Valley and is a Rotarian who has served on several local community boards over the years. She is a small business investor, the former head of Global HR and Corporate Relations for a major Minnesota manufacturer, and a former newspaper reporter.
The federal government has no place interfering in the decisions between a woman and her doctor, criminalizing abortion or enacting arbitrary laws that undermine women’s reproductive freedoms. The ruling by six extremist Justices on the Supreme Court was a calamitous decision that upended decades of precedent and rolled back fundamental rights for millions of Americans. And I fear that it is just the beginning of government overreach into the private, personal decisions of American families.
I am fiercely opposed to any efforts to roll back abortion laws – laws that are sensible and widely supported by the vast majority of Minnesotans – and I will do everything I can to make sure the American government does not overreach into the private, personal decision of American families. That’s why, earlier this year, I helped introduce and pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would officially codify Roe v. Wade into law. I also helped lead the effort to pass the Ensuring Access to Abortion Act, which ensures that no woman face legal consequences for traveling across state borders to seek abortion care. And finally, I helped introduce and pass the Right to Contraception Act, which would shore up access to birth control in the wake of the Supreme Court’s assault on reproductive rights and other fundamental freedoms.