2023-04-25 07:00:00
Governor signs North Dakota law banning almost all abortions
4/25/2023 8:24 am
North Dakota joins the group of US states that severely restrict abortions. Only in a few exceptional cases should this be possible in the future. However, women need to know very early on that they are pregnant.
North Dakota’s governor has signed legislation banning almost all abortions in the conservative-ruled US state. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum said the new law clarifies and refines existing law and reaffirms North Dakota’s claim to be a “pro-life state.”
The new law bans abortion from conception unless the fetus is not viable, the pregnancy endangers the mother’s health, is the result of rape or incest. In such cases, women are allowed to have an abortion up to the sixth week of pregnancy – at a time when many women are completely unaware that they are pregnant.
Abortion rights are one of the most controversial socio-political issues in the United States. Last June, the country’s Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year-old landmark “Roe v. Wade” ruling that enshrined a nationwide fundamental right to abortion. This gave states the right to massively restrict or ban abortions. Many conservative states have already done so.
Back and forth about abortion drug
Florida, for example, passed a law in mid-April that bans abortions after the sixth week. The White House condemned the move as “extreme and dangerous”.
In addition, a ruling by an arch-conservative federal judge from Texas had plunged the United States into a new legal battle over abortion rights – ten months after the Supreme Court repealed the nationwide fundamental right to abortions of the drug mifepristone for abortions or severely restricted pending the appeal.
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