North Dakota's abortion ban thrown out by Federal Judge

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/16/1292530/-North-Dakota-s-abortion-ban-thrown-out-by-Federal-Judge

Bad news for the GOP's war on women. A  U.S. District Court Judge has thrown out the North Dakota GOP's latest attempt to get around Roe vs Wade.

North Dakota abortion ban ruled unconstitutional

By Meredith Clark

A federal judge has struck down one of the strictest abortion laws in the country, ruling that a North Dakota ban on abortions after as early as six weeks is unconstitutional.

In his decision, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland wrote of the state’s push to end abortions after a month and a half, “The United States Supreme Court has spoken and has unequivocally said no state may deprive a woman of the choice to terminate her pregnancy at a point prior to viability.”

The law, which would have prohibited abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, passed last year and was immediately challenged. The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed suit on behalf of the Red River Women’s Clinic, the only abortion provider in North Dakota. A judge blocked the law from going into effect in July of last year.

In a statement, Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, called Wednesday’s decision a major victory for women throughout the Midwest.

“The court was correct to call this law exactly what it is: a blatant violation of the constitutional guarantees afforded to all women,” Northup said in a statement. “But women should not be forced to go to court, year after year in state after state, to protect their constitutional rights. We hope today’s decision, along with the long line of decisions striking down these attempts to choke off access to safe and legal abortion services in the U.S., sends a strong message to politicians across the country that our rights cannot be legislated away.”

sanity is once again prevailing in America when reaching to far to penalize you just get distended arm veins and a lot of self inflicted pain their's will kick in 12:01 am Nov. 5th 2014 than you are truly of a casualty of the war on women which the republicans are losing big time.

guess they must feel even stupider being beaten in a war they claim doesn't exist we'll have a right wing body count Nov. 5th this year.  maybe they should withdraw their troops from this imaginary war that's kicking the cowboy crap out of them in the polls and soon the nat'l voting polls.