North Dakota Bans All Abortions

[TheGodlessUtopian]

North Dakota lawmakers voted on Friday afternoon (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130322/us-abortion-north-dakota/?utm_hp_ref=arts&ir=arts) to pass a “personhood” abortion ban (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/19/1738321/north-dakota-suffer-personhood/), which would endow fertilized eggs with all the rights of U.S. citizens and effectively outlaw abortion. The measure, which passed the Senate last month, passed the House by a 57-35 vote (https://twitter.com/AP/status/315170128092332032).
A personhood ban could have far-reaching consequences even beyond abortion care, since it will charge doctors who damage embryos with criminal negligence. Doctors in the state say it will also prevent them from performing in vitro fertilization, and some medical professionals have vowed to leave the state (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/19/1738321/north-dakota-suffer-personhood/) if it is signed into law.
The measure is so extreme that some pro-life Republicans in the state have come out against it (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/22/1760521/nd-republicans-oppose-abortion-bans/), planning to join a pro-choice rally in the state capital on Monday to oppose the far-right abortion restriction. “We have stepped over the line,” Republican state Rep. Kathy Hawken (R-Fargo) said (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/22/1760521/nd-republicans-oppose-abortion-bans/) of the recent push to pass personhood. “North Dakota hasn’t even passed a primary seatbelt law, but we have the most invasive attack on women’s health anywhere.”
Personhood advocates have pushed their agenda (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/12/1576881/personhood-map/) in states throughout the country over the past several years, but their measures have so far been unable to advance. Anti-choice lawmakers in North Dakota have been able to push through several harsh abortion restrictions this session, however, and also approved a stringent six-week abortion ban (http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/15/1724911/north-dakota-six-week-heartbeat-ban/) last week.

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/22/1764141/north-dakota-passes-personhood/

[conmharáin]

It's weird how the word "personhood" in our country has come to imply infringement on human rights.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

This is outrageous, but even if the voters also endorse it in the November election, I don't see it withstanding federal judicial scrutiny.

[l'Enfermé]

Christian legislation in a Christian state? How surprising!

[Orange Juche]

This is outrageous, but even if the voters also endorse it in the November election, I don't see it withstanding federal judicial scrutiny.

That's what I was going to say. Considering it's not Constitutionally legal for them to create that law, it would only stand for a short period of time before a judge overturned it.

[Os Cangaceiros]

That area of the country (midwest) is fascinating to me, culturally. Rural Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming etc. You drive through some areas on the interstate and see some anti-abortion billboards/ads, as well as others about how you need to accept your lord and savior Jesus Christ, and anti-meth stuff, etc. Those cultural artifacts combined with the rural locations (North Dakota looks very barren, almost lunar in the winter) is very interesting to me for some reason. Like I imagine some militias or anti-abortion bombers plotting away in random abandoned farmhouses or something. ;)

But yeah, this sucks. Just another incident in the prolonged offensive against abortion over recent past, which has mostly taken the form of 'death by a thousand cuts'.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/03/22/1764141/north-dakota-passes-personhood/

The further the crisis of Accumulation develops, the more and more the bourgeoisie develops contradictory and extreme views and divides itself over which direction its society should go, egalitarian or Order. In turn, this alienates a lot of workers who seek for a vehicle for class unity and egalitarian change. We Communists have to fulfill this longing and provide a united Party movement of the working class.

[Yuppie Grinder]

It's weird how the word "personhood" in our country has come to imply infringement on human rights.

The dialogue of humanism has always been about excluding certain people from the definition of "human".

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Christian legislation in a Christian state? How surprising!

They think they live in a christian theocracy!

[Skyhilist]

It's weird how the word "personhood" in our country has come to imply infringement on human rights.

Capitalists spread misleading terms like this all the time. Just look at "right to work" and "citizens united", for example.