Blog for Choice: North Dakota Prepared to Ban Abortion

Apparently, North Dakota wants to follow the same anti-abortion path as South Dakota.

A North Dakota House committee is considering abortion bills today. The bill`s sponsors say they would take effect only if the U.S. Supreme Court bans abortion.

One bill would bar abortions except to save a woman`s life. Another would make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion or to prescribe the so-called "morning after" pill.

There are four bills being introduced today.

One, House Bill 1489, makes the intentional termination of a “preborn child” a class AA felony murder at all times between the moment of fertilization and birth.

House Bill 1466 would outlaw abortion except to save the life of the mother but would only take effect if the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that created a constitutional right to abortion.

House Bill 1464 adds prescribing of abortion-inducing drugs to the definition of abortion and creates several new requirements about information doctors must tell women contemplating an abortion before the procedure can be performed.

The fourth, House Bill 1494, restricts use of public funds for prenatal genetic testing unless the testing is a precursor to treatment for the woman or the fetus.

“1489 would facilitate and perhaps instigate a challenge to the Supreme Court,” said Dan Ruby, R-Minot.

Tim Stanley of Planned Parenthood has called Bill 1489 unconstitutional. Only bill 1466 has clear language about performing abortions to save the woman's life. These North Dakota pols are so pro-life that they are willing to let women die.

This kind of legislation is the reason is the reason we don't need government interfering in medical matters. I would take the prolife movement more seriously if they really cared about preventing pregnancy. Instead, they protest against the morning after pill and proper education about birth control. I don't believe that they think that preaching abstinence to horny 16 year-olds will work. They do so because they are incredibly prudish and hung up on sex. It is a natural act. What is unnatural is expecting a generation of young people to grow up to be the protagonist in the "The 40 Year Old Virgin."