January 21, 2014

North Dakota: at the Forefront of National Pro-life Legislation

By Janne Myrdal
North Dakota has been in the news a lot recently. Headlines focused attention across the country on the growth of energy production in the Bakken in Western North Dakota. Wind Chill factors of -63 also made national news. But the news cycle for this upper Midwest State ended right there; the most important story was largely ignored. North Dakota -- with quiet, effective and bipartisan cooperation -- is at the forefront of the pro-life legislative victories that are sweeping the nation. Readers will remember the big headlines in the national media over the 20-week abortion ban in Texas, but a few weeks earlier, with bipartisan support and no fanfare, that same legislation passed in North Dakota, and our governor signed it in to law. North Dakota also became the first state to ban all gender-selection and genetic-abnormalities abortions. And with bipartisan support, the North Dakota legislature passed a ban on abortion when a heartbeat is detectable, as well as a pro-women bill that...(Read Full Article)