Posted on 03/15/2013 2:08:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
North Dakota’s Senate passed a pair of anti-abortion measures Friday that are considered to be the most restrictive in the nation, including one that would prevent women from having an abortion based on a genetic defect.
The measures now to go to Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple who has indicated he will sign them.
The new state laws are even more strict than one finalized last week in Arkansas that would make the procedure illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy. One North Dakota measure would prevent women from having abortions based on a genetic defect, like Down syndrome. The other would ban doctors from performing an abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected—as early as five or six weeks. …
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That doesn’t wash in a right to work state. Besides, the energy sector counties didn’t vote for Heitkamp, it was mostly the East side of the state (the part without any oil). Reservations went Dem, as usual, but you could have run Abe Lincoln as a Democrat and they’d have voted for him—it’s a ticket vote (not sure why).
Yeah. but it is one way to ship the liberals a long ways from here.
Hell, you could elect Custer's great-great-great grandson on the Rez, if you ran him as a Democrat.
That's who they get all the beads & trinkets from these days, in fact always have...and at present it is a LOT.
I think this is the constitutional way to go. Women may have a manufactured right to privacy, but doctors do not.
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