North Dakota introduces toughest US abortion laws
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 27, 2013 15:21The state of North Dakota approved the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States, a move that challenges federal protection of a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.
Republican Governor Jack Dalrymple signed a bill that bans any abortion after a fetal heart beat can be detected, typically around six weeks after conception when many women still don’t realize they are pregnant.
There are no exceptions for rape, incest, the health of the mother or if she would lose the pregnancy anyway as a result of a fetal abnormality.
If ratified in a November 2014 election, the amendment would grant full legal protection to embryos and fetuses and could outlaw some forms of birth control, stem cell research and possibly in vitro fertilization.
The laws will undoubtedly prompt legal challenges — but their supporters welcome any chance this gives them to overturn the US Supreme Court’s landmark Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion in 1973.
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