MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Sen. Tina Smith was among a group of democratic lawmakers who met with workers at the Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead. It’s been just over a year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling which established a constitutional right to have an abortion. Some high-profile lawmakers toured the clinic…
Red River Women’s Clinic, MoorheadMOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Some high-profile Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Tina Smith and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan will visit the Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead Thursday. According to Smith’s office, the group plans to meet with Executive Director Tammi Kromenaker, clinic staff members and volunteers. They’ll discuss the impact on patients and abortion providers in…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former North Dakota abortion provider challenged one of the nation’s strictest abortion laws Monday, arguing the law “fragrantly violates” a court ruling supporting the right of patients in the state to obtain the procedure to preserve their life or health. The lawsuit initially filed last year by what was the conservative state’s sole abortion provider…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — The North Dakota Supreme Court rules that a state abortion ban will remain blocked while a lawsuit over its legality proceeds. South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick had put the trigger law that would ban abortion on hold last summer while the Red River Women’s Clinic pursued a lawsuit arguing the state constitution protected a right…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Anti-abortion advocates are stunned the Director of the Red River Women’s Clinic received a Human Rights Award from the Moorhead Human Rights Commission. Tammi Kromenaker was not at the City Council meeting Monday to accept the award. A representative with Pro Life Action Ministries believes giving it to her is despicable since one of the three…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – North Dakota’s Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the state’s abortion trigger ban on Tuesday. The Center For Reproductive Rights, which is representing the Red River Women’s Clinic, says it will happen at 9:30 AM. The clinic argues the ban violates the state’s constitution and wants the court to keep the law blocked while…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota attorney general’s office says a judge did not use a “rational mental process” when determining there was a “substantial probability” that a constitutional challenge to the state’s abortion ban would succeed. The state says there are errors in South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick’s opinion that prevents the ban from going into effect…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) — North Dakota’s Supreme Court will hear arguments later this month on the state’s abortion ban after the attorney general appealed a judge’s ruling that kept it from taking effect. The high court on Wednesday scheduled oral arguments for Nov. 29 on South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick’s opinion that there’s a “substantial probability” a constitutional challenge…
Red River Women’s Clinic, MoorheadFARGO – A North Dakota judge on Monday affirmed his refusal to let the state’s abortion ban take effect despite the state Supreme Court ordering him to reconsider whether he had made the “appropriate” decision as a lawsuit over the law is pending. Judge Bruce Romanick last month rejected a request from North Dakota Attorney General…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Candidates and the Executive Director of the Red River Women’s Clinic host a “Rally For Roevember” at Minnesota State University Moorhead. People are applauding candidates’ platforms of letting women make their reproductive decisions and not politicians or the Supreme Court. “Because, in Minnesota, abortion is a legally protected right, it is not on the ballot in…
