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North Dakota Supreme Court upholds block on trigger abortion ban

By Darryl Coote

March 17 (UPI) — North Dakota’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s hold on the state’s near-total abortion ban, ruling that access to the controversial medical procedure in some circumstances is constitutional.

The ruling is the latest in a series of court battles nationwide involving abortion restrictions Republican-led states have sought to implement following the conservative-leaning Supreme Court revoking federal protections for abortion last summer when justices overturned Roe vs. Wade.

North Dakota limits abortions to 21 weeks, six days of a pregnancy, but lawmakers in 2007 passed legislation to criminalize nearly all abortions as a class C felony once the landmark 1973 ruling was no more the rule of land. Exceptions were in place if the abortion was necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant person and if the pregnancy was the result of “gross sexual imposition,” abuse or incest.

Implementation of the law forced its then-only abortion provider, Red River Women’s Clinic, to move shop across the river to Moorhead, Minn., and seek litigation against it. In July, the Red River Women’s Clinic won injunction against the trigger ban by arguing that it went against the state’s Constitution — a tactic that several lawsuits have taken to challenge their recently enforced state bans.

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