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North Dakota Lawmaker: Banning Abortion Will Help Women ‘Realize’ They Don’t Want One After All

North Dakota Lawmaker: Banning Abortion Will Help Women ‘Realize’ They Don’t Want One After All: Rep. Bette Grande, one of the primary backers of North Dakota’s new unconstitutional abortion ban, is no stranger to anti-choice efforts to coerce women out of their decision to terminate a pregnancy. Four years ago, she spearheaded the state’s forced ultrasound law. Since then, she says young women have told her they decided not to [...]/p

Abortion Opponents In North Dakota Keep Trying To Block Comprehensive Sex Ed For At-Risk Youth

Abortion Opponents In North Dakota Keep Trying To Block Comprehensive Sex Ed For At-Risk Youth: The North Dakota legislature recently passed the harshest abortion ban in the nation, and is also considering two “personhood” measures that would outlaw abortion altogether. But state lawmakers also want to target abortion by going after Planned Parenthood, and are now attempting to block a comprehensive sex ed program that North Dakota State University (NDSU) [...]/p

North Dakota Poised To Enact Six-Week Abortion Ban, The Most Stringent Restriction In The Nation

North Dakota Poised To Enact Six-Week Abortion Ban, The Most Stringent Restriction In The Nation: Not to be outdone by Arkansas lawmakers — who recently overrode their governor to impose a 12-week abortion ban, the strictest in the country — abortion opponents in North Dakota want to go even further. So far this year, anti-choice lawmakers in Arkansas and North Dakota have practically tripped over each other to see which [...]/p

North Dakota’s Attacks On Choice Will Force Women Into Unsafe ‘Backroom’ Abortions, Doctor Warns

North Dakota’s Attacks On Choice Will Force Women Into Unsafe ‘Backroom’ Abortions, Doctor Warns: North Dakota lawmakers, who have pushed a stringently anti-choice agenda since the new legislative session began, are set to consider a package of abortion restrictions this week that would tighten the state’s laws even further. But one Fargo-area doctor is warning lawmakers that advancing those measures would have disastrous effects on women’s health — rolling [...]/p

Chipping Away At Roe: Arkansas And North Dakota Advance ‘Fetal Pain’ Abortion Bans

Chipping Away At Roe: Arkansas And North Dakota Advance ‘Fetal Pain’ Abortion Bans: So far this year, GOP lawmakers in Arkansas and North Dakota have practically tripped over each other to see which state can introduce more anti-abortion legislation. Among other abortion restrictions, each state is currently advancing a “fetal pain” measure to outlaw abortion procedures after 20 weeks of pregnancy — based on the scientifically disputed notion [...]/p

GOP Senate Candidate Supports Life Sentences For Rape Victims Who Obtain Abortions

GOP Senate Candidate Supports Life Sentences For Rape Victims Who Obtain Abortions: Rep. Rick Berg (R-ND), the candidate for Senate from North Dakota, once voted for a bill that would have made any woman who obtained an abortion guilty of a homicide crime — even if it were in the case of rape or incest. Indeed, the bill Berg supported does not even contain an explicit exception [...]/p