GOP resolution calls for outlawing all abortions in North Dakota

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/Prairie Public) – The State Committee of the North Dakota Republican Party has approved a new anti-abortion resolution that will be debated during the state GOP convention next week in Fargo.

Sources have said the resolution would call for the outlawing of all abortions, and would provide for criminal charges against a woman who has an abortion.

“Some of the language I saw concerned me because it deals with the punishment of the woman and any co-conspirators,”  Edinburg Republican State Senator Janne Myrdal said.  Myrdal is the author of the current state law on abortion.

“Who is a co-conspirator? How would we know that? Though, this is just a resolution…it becomes very meaningless except philosophically, when it doesn’t actually do anything for the unborn child.”

Myrdal says when Roe v Wade was overturned, abortions ceased in the state and the Red River Women’s Clinic moved from Fargo to Moorhead, Minnesota.

She says she didn’t know anything about the proposed resolution before it was brought forward.