North Dakota’s highest court has ruled that the state’s overturned abortion ban will not be enforced during an appeal of a judge’s ruling that struck down the law in September.
Abortion remains legal for now in North Dakota, though there are no abortion clinics operating there, after the lead plaintiff in the appeal moved into Minnesota.
The North Dakota Supreme Court on Friday declined to reinstate a near-total abortion ban as the state’s appeal proceeds. In a Friday majority opinion by Justice Daniel Crothers, the court appeared skeptical of several of the state’s core arguments defending the law,
NorthDakota's abortion ban will not be enforced while the state appeals an earlier decision that found it unconstitutional, the state's highest court ruled Friday. That appeal has yet to fully ...
South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Indiana legislatures are considering bills that would classify abortion as homicide and therefore allow patients who have abortions to be charged with murder.
In three of the four states, you can receive the death penalty for homicide. This seems a little extra from the anti-abortion movement, whose laws are already killing people, with or without threatening capital punishment.
Rep. Eric James Murphy, R-Grand Forks, speaks during a meeting of the interim Education Committee on Sept. 24, 2024. Murphy plans to bring a bill during the 2025 session that would preserve some abortion access in North Dakota.
Those who are pro-abortion can celebrate a victory today as the North Dakota Supreme Court denied the State’s effort to reinstate a near-total ban on the act, which was struck down in District Court in September.