Posted on 04/17/2014 4:46:33 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
BISMARCK, N.D. -- A federal judge on Wednesday overturned a North Dakota law that bans abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks into pregnancy and before many women know they're pregnant.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland said the law is "invalid and unconstitutional" and that it "cannot withstand a constitutional challenge." The state attorney general said he was looking at whether to appeal the decision by the Bismarck-based judge.
North Dakota is among several conservative states that have passed new abortion restrictions in recent years, but abortion rights supporters called North Dakota's fetal heartbeat law the most restrictive in the country. A fetal heartbeat law passed in Arkansas would ban abortions at 12 weeks into pregnancy, but it was overturned by another federal judge. The state's attorney general has said he will appeal.
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I’d really like to know the grass-roots response to Roe in 1972. I may pull some old newspapers when I get a chance.
It was written by honorable men with the belief that honorable men would protect the dictates within.
Our leadership in government is most certainly not honorable, neither is the local and national process of electing true stewards of the Constitution. Graft, greed, power grabbing, election fraud, and judicial infiltration are SOP and order of the day for Democrats.
Go take a look at the Declaration of Independence and the litany of indictments against King George’s acts against the colonies. Except for a name change here or there, or updating the crimes against human freedom, it reads the same for what Obama and his ilk have done.
any of the lies SoFloFreeper enumerated....
Sodomy must be celebrated, children must be murdered. So decrees the federal judiciary. The people are not fit to rule themselves.?
or lumped into one LIBERAL LIE
The “opinion” of ONE (1) Federal Judge, trumps, the vote of the entire North Dakota Legislature, and the Chief Executive of the State of North Dakota, all elected officials, for and in behalf of the entire population of the State of North Dakota.
Would anyone like to explain the apparent disconnect?
It would seem to me that someone has a misunderstanding of the word unconstitutional.
If there is no judge heart beat, is there a ruling?
In North Dakota you can be charged with murder for killing an unborn child without the requirement of age in uterus, heartbeat, etc.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t12-1c17-1.pdf?20140417071845
Most states have similar laws. If killed by a third party it is murder. If the parent decides to kill the child by abortion it is not?
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/fetal-homicide-state-laws.aspx
Read Article 3. You will find nothing to back that up.
Judicial tyranny at its finest.
We can pass those Amendments after we get the Liberty Amendments (via Mark Levin) passed.
We can also pass an Amendment defining marriage according to the Judeo-Christian definition.
Not surprising that a progressive RINO who hid under the mask of a conservative would appoint a Progressive judge who hides under the mask of ‘blind justice.’
“...invalid and unconstitutional”
How can that be? Nowhere in the constitution does it give selfish women the right to kill their kid.
silch = Zilch Ok that's it better go get the coffee.
Advancements in technology (visual imagery, heartbeat recordings, etc) is the death knell for the pro abort crowd.
Wait til you can post hi rez images or hi def audio of your unborn baby on youtube, facebook, and twitter. The Left is going to lose it.
States must declare their sovereignty and tell the federal government to take a hike. It’s insane for states to continue passing laws and propositions and then surrendering to the dictates of federal judges and courts.
Even judges are afraid of raging, man-hating fang tooth feminazis.
Most states have similar laws. If killed by a third party it is murder. If the parent decides to kill the child by abortion it is not?
Ain’t that just the cats meow. /s if needed.
You get no argument from me on that point. State sovereignty and the tenth amendment to the Constitution should mean something. Too many people have a total misunderstanding of the so called supremacy clause of the Constitution.
Judges have been allowed to usurp the power of the legislatures.
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