North Dakota Personhood Measure Passes State Senate

LAURA BASSETT - The Huffington Post

North Dakota has only one abortion clinic and has been rated the worst state in the country for women, but the State Senate passed two bills on Thursday will make it even more difficult for women in the state to access abortion care.

North Dakota lawmakers passed a Personhood Constitutional Amendment initiative on Thursday that would amend the state's constitution to give legal rights and protections to human embryos. If the ballot initiative passes the House, North Dakota voters will decide on it during the 2014 elections.

"We are intending that it be a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, since Scalia said that the Supreme Court is waiting for states to raise a case," state Sen. Margaret Sitte (R), the sponsor of the personhood initiative, told HuffPost.

The Senate also passed a bill on Thursday that could shut down the North Dakota's one abortion clinic, the ...

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Yoshi k. Feb 8, 2013, 10:46am UTC

On the one hand overpopulation with excessive unemployment and limited resources that will only worsen with time verses the excessive cruelty of bleeding heart liberals who perpetuate the present economic decline based on unsupportable presumptions proven to exaserbate collective discord. Interesting.

Clarke M. Feb 8, 2013, 1:01pm UTC

To characterize "liberals" as the problem when the plutocrats have the power seems wrong-headed and not facing facts.

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Richard B. Feb 8, 2013, 12:39pm UTC

we all know that and this is nothing new at all. North Dakota does what North Dakota wants

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North Dakota Personhood Measure Passes State Senate

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