YEA!
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God bless North Dakota. This is fantastic news in these days of quite the opposite. May all their efforts be successful in implementing this law in the days to come.
Woo hoo & praise the Lord! May God strengthen these people - this is just the beginning of what will be a long battle.
great news
Excellent. It’s also going to be hard for the pro-death crowd to wail about “the return to back alley abortions” in the wake of Gosnell’s house of horrors.
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Good for North Dakota!
I think in 50 years every state will have passed such a law and people will look back on the post-Roe v. Wade years with horror wondering “what were they thinking”?
The carnage vastly exceeds that done by the Nazis during the Holocaust. And we wonder how German citizens could have stood idly by watching that happen or even actively facilitating it.
By the end of next year, total U.S. abortions since 1973 (48M through 2008; http://voiceofrevolution.askdrbrown.org/2009/01/18/abortion-statistics/) will exceed total deaths during WWII
(http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/statistics.htm)
Doesn't this provision sort of invalidate the main thrust of the bill? What am I missing?
It’s a start!
Note too that states are taking the lead in not only rights, but responsibilities with all sorts of things: taxes, regs, spending, border control , the economy, the Constitution. That is a welcome sight in this Federal Mish Mosh we face from DC.
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Agreed. This is a federal issue.
Proud of North Dakota!!! WTG!!
They are not going to “recognize the personhood” of the unborn from conception. The problem is that the law since the founding of the Nation has always been that the unborn do not become humans with rights until “quickening” which is generally when they start to move about. Most of the States nevertheless had laws prohibiting abortion from very soon after the Constitution was enacted. It was considered that even if the fetus was not a human, the State government still had the power to regulate abortion. On the other hand, there was nothing to prevent any particular State from allowing abortion.
Roe declared all those statutes prohibiting abortion unConstitutional in 1973. The most that the Supreme Court is going to do is overturn Roe, and go back to the pre-Roe law, which was that States could prohibit abortion, if they want, but they don’t have to. More likely, they will simply read Roe very narrowly, holding that the only thing Roe means is that you can’t put someone in jail for having an abortion.
I don’t think the Court would issue that kind of a ruling with the current Justices, but a switch of say two votes might make it happen.