Julie Burkhart of Trust Women Foundation, and Tammi Kromenaker, director of Red River Women’s Clinic in North Dakota, talk with Rachel Maddow about how patients and practitioners are weathering clinic-killing TRAP laws that are the new strategy in the GOP war on women’s health services.
North Dakota’s One Abortion Clinic Gets Donations, Governor Gets Pat on the Back From Catholic Church
Dalrymple’s support is coming from a much different community: the Catholic Church. Local Bishop David D. Kagan released a statement praising the new laws and the governor’s actions to affirm them. “The protection of all human life from the moment of conception to natural death is the primary purpose of government. All persons, including our elected officials, are obligated to unceasingly seek protection of this basic human right,” he said. Bishop Kagan became the center of a media storm prior to the 2012 elections for using his church standing and title to implore North Dakota Catholics to vote against Democrat Heidi Heitkamp in the U.S. Senate race, throwing subtle support to Republican candidate Rick Berg, who once stated that women should be jailed for obtaining abortions. Heitkamp won the race.
I guess I won’t be driving through North Dakota soon.
but yanno. pro-life. or something.
North Dakota legislature is being sneaky. First they pass legislation Friday evening to virtually make abortion illegal in the state and now while all eyes are on SCOTUS this bill may be signed into law.
The women of North Dakota are already struggling with ONE clinic in the state and its legislature has moved to close it.
Tell Jack Dalrymple for Governor to VETO SB 2305 & keep its LAST clinic open!
Please SIGN and REBLOG to spread the word!
edit: Gov Dalrymple signed all abortion restriction bills into law.
but the fight continues…
Slew of Anti-Choice Bills Headed to North Dakota Governor’s Desk, But Not ‘Personhood’
In summary, this is what they’d do:
- ban abortions at around six weeks
- close the only abortion clinic in the state
- eliminate sex ed for high-risk teens
- ban abortion 20 weeks post-fertilization
The good news?
A bill to give legal rights to fertilized eggs failed to pass: 49 to 43.
During a debate between Senator Margaret Sitte & Dr. Kristen Cain about the abortion restriction bills in North Dakota, Sen. Sitte makes a litle slip.
She stumbles and admits that outside interests are behind the unconstitutional abortion bans in the state and are willing to spend MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to make sure that people in North Dakota won’t have the right to an abortion.
Watch when she’s called out on trying to lie her way out of it.
Yo, Arkansas, Imma let you finish, but North Dakota is gunna have the worst abortion restrictions of ALL TIME!*
Move Over, Arkansas, North Dakota Is Ready to Outdo You on Anti-Choice Extremism
*in the US since Roe v. Wade
Bill to Grant Legal Rights to Fetilized Eggs Passes North Dakota Senate, Heads for House
“SB 2303 will restrict a doctor’s ability to treat doomed pregnancies, putting women’s lives at risk, said Siri Fiebiger, a physician from Fargo who practices obstetrics and gynecology, in a written statementreleased by TheNorth Dakota Coalition for Privacy in Health Care. “Ectopic pregnancies are and miscarriages can be life-threatening if not treated in a timely fashion. Complications during pregnancy should be managed by physicians according to the patient’s needs and values, without involvement by politicians. Health care providers will be confused by this law and they will fear litigation. It is impossible to legislate for every medical scenario.”
There is a strong possibility that a “personhood” ballot amendment in 2014 would have failed. Now, with a legislature bent on putting it into action, it will become law even against the desires of the voters on whom it will be imposed.
Three Lessons on Religious Freedom from North Dakota
Written by Lon Newman for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
June 12th, in North Dakota, voters rejected a constitutional amendment (Measure 3) that, in the name of religious freedom, would in reality have empowered institutional discrimination. The voters affirmed constitutional protections for the free exercise of religious belief and against the establishment of state-protected discrimination by religious institutions and religious affiliates.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) supported Measure Three and there are three strong reasons voters rejected it.
With the rejection of the “Personhood Amendment” in Mississippi and the rejection of Measure 3 in North Dakota, we see proof that Americans have a profound respect for religious freedom as the founders intended it.
