Federal Court Strikes Down Nation’s Strictest Abortion Ban

[niyad]

Federal Court Strikes Down Nation’s Strictest Abortion Ban


A federal court upheld this week that North Dakota’s strict abortion ban law is unconstitutional, blocking it permanently.




The North Dakota law is one of the strictest in the nation. HB 1456 bans abortion past the detection of a fetal heartbeat, which can be detected as early as six weeks into pregnancy, and would have banned abortion before many women even know that they are pregnant.

The bill was signed into law by Governor Jack Dalrymple in 2013, after which pro-choice groups including the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Red River Women’s Clinic – the last remaining abortion provider in North Dakota. A federal district court blocked the law in 2014, noting that “the United States Supreme Court has spoken and has unequivocally said no state may deprive a woman of the choice to terminate her pregnancy at a point prior to viability.” “Today’s decision reaffirms that the U.S. Constitution protects women from the legislative attacks of politicians who would deny them their right to safely and legally end a pregnancy,” said Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Tammi Kromenaker, director of the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, ND, said that the clinic is very happy with the decision, but is ready to fight the measure should the state make an appeal to the Supreme Court. “We certainly hoped from the beginning when the bill was first proposed in the Legislature that the final outcome would be that the court would say that the state of North Dakota went too far in trying to ban abortions for the women that we served,” Kromenaker said.

Anti-choice North Dakota lawmakers are now demanding that state Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem appeal to the Supreme Court. The justices, however, can decline to hear the case, as they did with the blocking of an Arizona state 20-week abortion ban last year.

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/07/24/federal-court-strikes-down-nations-strictest-abortion-ban/

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1. I wonder what it would be like to have no contraception, at all.

Do the radicals who want that not understand it is not up to them to want that for other people?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. They want to CONTROL women. That is all they want. Nothing else matters to them. n/t

[Zorra]

33. +1 nt

[niyad]

5. their vision is "the handmaid's tale".

and I wish people would stop using the word "radical" to describe reactionaries.

[AllFieldsRequired]

7. Yes, I should not use that word, agreed. I wanted to say "no good motherfuckers" but wasnt sure if

i could

[niyad]

25. yes, you can.

[jmowreader]

17. Parts of it, anyway

I don't think even the GOP would go for the Ceremony.

[jalan48]

13. The reality is that the women of the 1% will always have access to abortions and birth control.

It's the lower income women who are effected by these right wing attempts to curtail a woman's right to choose.

[AllFieldsRequired]

14. Yes, and yet when the baby is born I doubt the teaparty will be lined up outside the

hospital room to offer food and shelter and medicine.

[jalan48]

15. Yes-they really have no vested interest in the human outside the body-just the unborn.

It's the perfect 'feel good' cause for them, no personal responsibility required on their part.

[jmowreader]

18. Especially if it was born with a birth defect, it's not white or it isn't cute enough

[jwirr]

22. And ^^THIS^^ has always been the truth. As to what it would be like. I think they should all

have to visit a country where that is true and see the over population, the poverty, the despair, and the hopelessness.

[niyad]

26. you are assuming that they would notice, or care?

[jwirr]

28. True. I forgot they are mostly brain dead.

[Eleanors38]

37. Hard fact: Where you find a prohibition and an elite, the latter won't be bound by the former.

[niyad]

39. too true

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Finally, the women of North Dakota have a bit of Justice.

God damn those "lawmakers."

[niyad]

4. I really wish I believed in hell, because that is where all the woman-hating, pro-

forced birth gestational slavers belong.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I am with you on this!

[niyad]

9. as that poster says:

[onyourleft]

16. I feel...

...the same way she does. Remember the 1960s when we couldn't, for all practical purposes, get birth control? I certainly do.

[niyad]

27. I remember.

[sunnystarr]

34. 1968

After my son was born I wanted a tubal ligation. I was denied. He was my 2nd child, was 25 years old and I could only have the procedure done if I had 5 children.

1972 ... I wanted a tubal ligation after my daughter was born. I was allowed to have it but only with the signature of my husband.

There must be choice for women.

[niyad]

36. ah, yes, the infamous "rule of 120". for those who have never heard the term, it refers

to the fact that, until recently, a woman could ONLY undergo voluntary sterilization IF her age times the number of children she had equaled or exceeded 120. AND, she had to have 3 doctors and a psychiatrist sign off on it.

[Eleanors38]

38. Know the feeling.nt

[AllFieldsRequired]

8. I think you are on to something here, the hatred of women does seem to be a repeated

theme with the right.

[niyad]

10. welcome to du.

hatred for women seems to be one of their main rai·son d'être

[AllFieldsRequired]

11. Thanks

[onenote]

12. Good result. Bad opinion

The unanimous opinion, joined by three judges appointed by GWBush, conceded that Supreme Court precedent rendered the ND law unconsistitional. But the opinion then goes on for almost half its length to discuss why the Supreme Court should "reevaluate" that precedent.

[riversedge]

19. #StandwithPP

[Myrina]

20. Next to overturn: Snot Walker's 5 week abortion ban in WI.

Please and thank you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. Absolutely right! n/t

[IcyPeas]

23. CNN's series "The Seventies"

last weeks episode was mostly about ERA and Roe vs. Wade. The right wing is saying the same exact shit now that they were back then - and that phillis shafly is still around!!! It's maddening that we are still going through this same shit.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/22/living/the-seventies-feminism-womens-lib/index.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. good

[Warpy]

29. Good, it was a stupid, stupid bill with an incredibly stupid criterion

Personally, I think all these Christian patriarchs should go back to their bibles, where abortion was permitted until "quickening," when fetal movement began to be detectable, about the fifth month.

Either they follow their bibles or they don't, right?

[niyad]

30. they follow whichever parts suit them, and ignore the rest.

[Warpy]

31. Yes, all the while screaming "IT'S THE INERRANT WORDAGAWD!"

while they wave them around like some sort of talisman.

They'd be terribly shocked by what is really in there, IMO.

[niyad]

32. they love the old testament part--full of blood and gore and raping and pillaging.

[beam me up scottie]

35. Good.

I hope this won't be the only one struck down this year.

The anti-choice crusaders have learned how to ban abortion without overturning Roe v Wade.

It's barbaric to force women to be incubators for the state.

K&R