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| North Dakota law restricting abortion blocked by federal judge | North Dakota law restricting abortion blocked by federal judge |
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| A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new North Dakota law that bans abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected – as early as six weeks into pregnancy, calling the law "clearly invalid and unconstitutional." | A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new North Dakota law that bans abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected – as early as six weeks into pregnancy, calling the law "clearly invalid and unconstitutional." |
| U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland in Bismarck granted a temporary injunction Monday that blocks the law from taking effect on August 1. | U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland in Bismarck granted a temporary injunction Monday that blocks the law from taking effect on August 1. |
| "There is no question that (the North Dakota law) is in direct contradiction to a litany of United States Supreme Court cases addressing restraints on abortion," Hovland wrote. "(It) is clearly an invalid and unconstitutional law based on the United States Supreme Court precedent in Roe v Wade from 1973 ... and the progeny of cases that have followed." | "There is no question that (the North Dakota law) is in direct contradiction to a litany of United States Supreme Court cases addressing restraints on abortion," Hovland wrote. "(It) is clearly an invalid and unconstitutional law based on the United States Supreme Court precedent in Roe v Wade from 1973 ... and the progeny of cases that have followed." |
| New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Fargo's Red River Women's Clinic, filed the lawsuit after the law was passed this year by the North Dakota legislature. It would outlaw the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before some women even know they are pregnant. | New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Fargo's Red River Women's Clinic, filed the lawsuit after the law was passed this year by the North Dakota legislature. It would outlaw the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before some women even know they are pregnant. |
| The law was one of four that the Republican-controlled legislature and GOP governor Jack Dalrymple passed this year that combined make North Dakota the most restrictive state in the nation in which to get an abortion. | The law was one of four that the Republican-controlled legislature and GOP governor Jack Dalrymple passed this year that combined make North Dakota the most restrictive state in the nation in which to get an abortion. |
| Bebe Anderson, director of the US Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, praised Hovland's ruling in a statement Monday. | Bebe Anderson, director of the US Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, praised Hovland's ruling in a statement Monday. |
| "The nation's most extreme abortion ban has been blocked, and the message to hostile politicians could not be clearer: the rights of women guaranteed under the US Constitution and protected by 40 years of Supreme Court precedent cannot be legislated away," she said. | "The nation's most extreme abortion ban has been blocked, and the message to hostile politicians could not be clearer: the rights of women guaranteed under the US Constitution and protected by 40 years of Supreme Court precedent cannot be legislated away," she said. |
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