A crowd listens to Ginna Cross, an out-of-state anti-abortion advocate, testify in favor of a bill to define a human being to include an unborn child on Feb. 5, 2025. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota lawmakers are weighing whether to allow women who obtain abortions to be charged with murder. House Bill 1373, referred…
Members of Legislative Management meet on Nov. 13, 2024. The North Dakota Legislature is expected to take action on property tax reform during the 2025 session. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota will ring in the new year with a lot of unfinished business from 2024. Many of the state’s biggest stories from last year…
Rep. Eric James Murphy, R-Grand Forks, speaks during a meeting of the interim Education Committee on Sept. 24, 2024. Murphy plans to bring a bill during the 2025 session that would preserve some abortion access in North Dakota. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — A Republican state lawmaker plans to introduce a bill he says will strike…
South Central Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Romanick listens to arguments in a lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s abortion ban on Oct. 10, 2024, in Bismarck. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)(Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) A district court judge denied a request by the state Thursday to suspend his decision striking down the state’s abortion ban while the case goes to…
FARGO-MOORHEAD (KVRR) — Anti-abortion protestors and counter protestors both took to the streets on Saturday for A-Cross America Relay for Pro-Life rally. The anti-abortion walk started at the Cathedral of St. Mary in downtown Fargo and headed down Broadway on their way to the Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead. Once they reached their destination they were greeted by counter…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — The State of North Dakota was asking State District Judge Bruce Romanick to dismiss the lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban due to the fact that the plaintiff, The Red River Women’s Clinic, had since moved to Minnesota. However, in his decision, Romanick struck down the abortion ban, writing that the law was not narrowly tailored…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A trial looming in a lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s abortion ban was canceled Monday as the judge in the case weighs whether to throw out the lawsuit. It was not immediately clear why the trial was canceled. State District Judge Bruce Romanick issued a notice to parties regarding the trial saying the Aug. 26-30 trial is…
Red River Women’s Clinic, Moorhead, Minn.BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Physicians and the former, sole abortion provider in North Dakota on Tuesday asked a judge to block enforcement of part of a revised law that bans most abortions, saying a provision that allows the procedure to protect a woman’s health is too vague. North Dakota outlaws all abortions, except in cases where women…
