BISMARCK, N.D. – Governor Doug Burgum signed a ban on pregnancy terminations after six weeks of gestation, which is earlier than most pregnant women know they’re pregnant. The bill makes North Dakota one of the strictest anti-abortion states in the nation. “The law reaffirms North Dakota as a pro-life state,” said the Republican governor. The bill allows abortions only for rape or incest in the first six weeks. And not thereafter. Abortions for emergencies, like an ectopic or molar pregnancy, are allowed at any stage that the mother’s life is at risk.
Not in NoDak
North Dakota no longer has any abortion clinics. Last summer the state’s only facility, the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, moved a short distance across the border to Moorhead in Minnesota. The clinic’s owner has gone to court to challenging the constitutionality of North Dakota’s previous abortion ban.
Burgum. In office since 2016.