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How Can North Dakota Pols Ban Abortion? Let Me Count the Ways.

Elissa Berger,
Advocacy and Policy Counsel,
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March 14, 2013

Update: The North Dakota legislature passed a bill today that bans most abortions in the state. Should this bill be signed into law by the governor, North Dakota will become the first state in the nation to ban most abortions.

Some politicians in North Dakota are so intent on taking away a woman鈥檚 ability to make personal, private decisions they are pushing a package of bills that, together, would ban abortion, prevent women鈥檚 health centers from providing comprehensive care, and block many people鈥檚 attempts at even starting a family.

A bill to ban abortion as early as six weeks, before a woman may even know she is pregnant is poised to pass the legislature this week. A bill that would grant legal rights to fertilized eggs, thereby banning abortion and restricting IVF, could also pass any day now. There is also a bill intended to regulate abortion clinics out of existence in North Dakota by imposing medically unjustified requirements on doctors that perform abortions.

I recognize that we don't all feel the same way about abortion, but we should be able to agree that this personal decision is best made by a woman and her family, not politicians. First, in Arkansas, now in North Dakota, politicians seem to have completely lost sight of this. It鈥檚 up to us, women and men across this country to remind them. If we don't, one thing is sure: North Dakota won't be the last.

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