abortion

It's a we-told-you-so moment. North Dakota's abortion bill was a doomed stunt in 2013 when the Legislature passed it and the governor signed it. It did not survive review by a federal judge based in Bismarck. And last Wednesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Republican presidential contender Rand Paul said on Sunday he plans to push Congress to cut federal funding for the nonprofit reproductive health care organization Planned Parenthood in a debate over its treatment of aborted fetal tissue. “I think the time is...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Republican presidential contender Rand Paul said on Sunday he plans to push Congress to cut federal funding for the nonprofit reproductive health care organization Planned Parenthood in a debate over its treatment of aborted fetal tissue. "I think the time...

BISMARCK — A federal appeals court on Wednesday affirmed a lower court's decision to block a 2013 North Dakota law that would have imposed the strictest abortion ban in the nation by outlawing abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, at about six weeks of pregnancy. The...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of North Carolina to revive its law requiring women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound of the fetus performed and described to them by a doctor. The high court let stand a December appeals court ruling...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks, a measure strongly opposed by the White House. The Republican-led House approved the bill by a largely party-line vote of 242-184.

FARGO — Some women's advocates complain that a "gag" provision was inserted into a bill to bar state money from being used to "refer for or counsel" human trafficking victims "in favor of abortion." The amended bill, a uniform bill to curb human trafficking, passed the...

BISMARCK – North Dakota’s only abortion clinic is petitioning the state Supreme Court for a rehearing after the high court issued an opinion last month upholding a state law passed in 2011 that limits drug-induced abortions. The New York-based Center for...

FARGO — North Dakota's only abortion clinic turned away at least eight women scheduled for medication abortions here Wednesday, one day after the state's highest court ruled that a law limiting drug-induced abortions is constitutional. Tammi Kromenaker, director of the...

BISMARCK — The North Dakota Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a district judge’s ruling that had blocked a 2011 state law limiting drug-induced abortions from taking effect, saying there wasn’t a sufficient majority of justices in agreement to declare the law unconstitutional. Attorneys...

BISMARCK – The North Dakota Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a district judge’s ruling that had blocked a 2011 state law limiting drug-induced abortions from taking effect, saying there wasn’t a sufficient majority of justices in agreement to declare the law unconstitutional....

There’s a lot of hoopla regarding Measure 1 these days, which states “the inalienable right to life of every human being at any stage of development must be recognized and protected.” But in reality the anti-abortionists insist they only want the government and the voters...

Measure 1, the so-called “personhood amendment” has the distinction of being the most purposefully ambiguous measure ever on a North Dakota ballot. Put there by a misguided and manipulated majority of the Legislature, Measure 1’s seemingly simple and straightforward language...

NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that Texas could begin enforcing restrictions on abortion clinics that critics of the new rules say will force all but seven of the facilities in the state to shut down. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Recently, the nation has witnessed via the media, disturbing videos of a violent nature committed against humanity. President Barack Obama was “shocked” when he saw the video of an NFL player beating his wife in an elevator then dragging her out. We were horrified when we...