Erin Maye QuadeErin Maye Quade

EMILYs List recruits, trains and supports Democratic pro-choice women candidates at every level of the ballot. By helping to elect these women to office in 2025 and 2026, we’re not only building a foundation for the future, but we’re also putting strong women in charge of decisions that affect women and families every day — from the legislators who write laws to the attorneys general who defend and enforce them to the secretaries of state who ensure access to the ballot.

In 2018, Senator Maye Quade helped create and lead the largest reproductive health, rights, and justice coalition in the state of Minnesota. She laid the groundwork for a statewide movement to protect and expand our reproductive rights. In her first term in the state senator, she passed critical legislation such as:

The Reproductive Freedom Codification Act (RFCA) to repeal unconstitutional and outdated abortion restrictions

The Reproductive Freedom Defense Act (RFDA) to protect patients accessing abortion care in Minnesota from out-of-state prosecution

Medicaid coverage for home birth services

Required study and reporting of maternal deaths to improve prevention measures

As a reproductive justice advocate and Co-Chair of the Reproductive Freedom Caucus, Senator Maye Quade is committed to upholding the fundamental right to abortion and the full range of reproductive health care from increased access to contraceptives to insurance coverage for fertility services and preservation to universal baby boxes for new parents.

Co-author, SF4298 data center pause (passed the Senate). Limited on AI safety and regulation, strong on data center opposition, strong public voice on AI.