Pro-Life Law Halted

A conservative state’s supreme court has “taken on the role of a legislative body” by halting the state’s pro-life protection law for violating a constitutional “right” that does not exist, the state’s attorney general has said.

The North Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday stopped enforcement of the state’s trigger law, which protected nearly every unborn baby from abortion, because it does not contain an exception for the “health” of the mother — an exception that historically has been used to justify virtually any late-term abortion.

“North Dakota’s Supreme Court appears to have taken on the role of a legislative body, a role our constitution does not afford” it, “by holding there is now also an un-defined ‘health’ exception to abortion regulation … without explicit support from our state constitution,” said state Attorney General Drew Wrigley (R). North Dakota officials have historically assured that abortion remained “explicitly confined to protecting the life of the mother. Legislatures could have expanded that narrow exception, but they have not done so.”  (Excerpt from The Washington Stand.)