Not everyone supports that particular aspect, but it is done for a reason. A doctor who sets up shop to make money from murdering babies is the real target here. The poor, scared desperate woman who is trying to make the "smart choice" by killing her child, is someone who could be sent to prison for 20 years under other forms of this type of law, but North Dakota is choosing not to be punitive toward her, and is trying to see her as a sort of victim as well. It's the medical establishment that is the easier, and more fruitful, target.
As I say, not everyone would agree with the strategy, but one can see why is would be chosen to garner easier political support.
“North Dakota is choosing not to be punitive toward her, and is trying to see her as a sort of victim as well.”
If that is the case, you can expect the next woman who murders her child that is age anywhere from one day old to 18 years old to cite this aspect of the law in her defense and therefore not be convicted.
All she would have to say is that she was “a poor, scared desperate woman who is trying to make the “smart choice””
OK, I see that. It mighjt just make the bill easier to pass the senate.