Aren’t such laws pointless and certain to be overturned because the right to an abortion is now Federally protected via Row v. Wade?
If I remember correctly, there is only one abortion clinic in the whole state, in the Koppleman building in Fargo.
Catholic friends of mine used to go “counsel” the women who would go there.
I’ve always thought that if abortion law was left to the states, North Dakota would outlaw it, and California would mandate it.
I have always thought that a TAX on abortions was the way to go.
That tax should compensate for the future tax revenues that child might have produced.
The TAXING power was just upheld in Obamacare, right?
It will be interesting to see when the Holder’s Justice Dept. gets involved and tries to trample States’ rights even further. This could set up a protracted battle between the two.
The North Dakota legislature has always been pretty conservative and such measures have always garnered lots of support. If I am not mistaken, sometime between 1985 and 1993 the legislature passed a very restrictive abortion law only to have it vetoed by the Democratic Governor George Sinner. Appropriate last name perhaps. Sinner is a Roman Catholic with 10 kids.
This is going to backfire when the courts further reaffirm Roe vs Wade.
I have often wondered why it has taken so long for some conservative state so long to just do this and force another challenge of the constitutionality of Roe v Wade. That whole “right to privacy” bs should have been challenged many moons ago.
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