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The North Dakota attorney general\u2019s office has filed a legal opinion<\/a> arguing that District Judge Bruce Romanick did not use a \u201crational mental process\u201d when he placed an injunction on the state\u2019s trigger law protecting most preborn children from abortion.<\/p>\n

The trigger law was intended to go into effect following the overturn of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but it was immediately challenged by Red River Women\u2019s Clinic, the state\u2019s only abortion facility. After filing the lawsuit, the facility moved across state lines to Minnesota, leaving no abortion business in the state.<\/p>\n

In response to the lawsuit, Romanick issued a temporary injunction<\/a> against the law in August, and upheld that injunction in an October 31 ruling, stating that there was \u201csubstantial probability\u201d that the abortion facility would succeed in its argument that abortion is a constitutionally-protected right in the state.<\/p>\n

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In his 20-page November 21 filing, Attorney General\u00a0Drew Wrigley argued in favor of the preborn protections, noting that Romanick was mistaken when he said that there was a \u201cclear and obvious\u201d answer as to whether or not the state\u2019s constitution permits abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch leaps in analysis do not appear to be the product of a rational mental process leading to a reasoned determination. The district court\u2019s determination on this issue is diminished and unsupported by its own analysis and admission that the \u2018answer to whether the statute is constitutional is not obvious,\u2019\u201d Wrigley wrote.<\/p>\n

Though it no longer operates in the state, the abortion facility issued its own filing, praising Romanick’s ruling. \u201cSimilarly, it is in the public interest to maintain the preliminary injunction while the case progresses,\u201d the facility\u2019s attorneys wrote. \u201cKeeping the preliminary injunction in place allows patients to continue to access emergency medical care within North Dakota; indeed, as the district court recognized, if the abortion ban were to take effect, physicians may be chilled from performing abortions even in a life-threatening situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the abortion facility claims that the state\u2019s law prevents women from receiving life-saving medical care, this is simply not true and is a scare tactic that has been overtly pushed by the abortion industry since the overturn of Roe<\/em>. If the mother\u2019s life is truly threatened, doctors can perform a preterm delivery. This is not an abortion if the intent is to save the mother\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

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The North Dakota attorney general\u2019s office has filed a legal opinion arguing that District Judge Bruce Romanick did not use a \u201crational mental process\u201d when he placed an injunction on the state\u2019s trigger law protecting most preborn children from abortion. The trigger law was intended to go into effect following the overturn of Roe v. 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