North Dakota Passes Earliest U.S. Abortion Limit
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North Dakota lawmakers voted to ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, the narrowest window of any U.S. state, and to become the first to bar terminations sought because of genetic abnormalities.
The Republican-led state Senate approved the measures today in Bismarck. They now go to Republican Governor Jack Dalrymple for his signature. Abortion-rights supporters decried the bills as extreme, dangerous and unconstitutional and urged a veto.