North Dakota Reclaims Worst State for Women Title From Arkansas

If you thought Arkansas's twelve-week abortion ban was unconstitutional, wait until you see the one North Dakota's State Senate passed today. North Dakota House Bill 1456, which passed in the State House and is expected to receive the Republican governor's signature, will make it a felony for a doctor to perform a non-emergency abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is about six weeks. That's the limit Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert originally wanted, but scrapped due to the unpopularity of the vaginal ultrasound required to detect the heartbeat. (At twelve weeks, a fetal heartbeat can be detected by the less invasive abdominal ultrasound.) We would expect no less from the American Prospect's worst state for women.

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