{"id":77743,"date":"2015-10-21T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=77743"},"modified":"2015-10-21T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T18:31:28","slug":"supreme-court-grants-north-dakota-time-petition-heartbeat-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-grants-north-dakota-time-petition-heartbeat-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court grants North Dakota more time to petition for heartbeat abortion ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The US Supreme Court has granted North Dakota an extension beyond Tuesday\u2019s deadline to petition it to hear the case of the state\u2019s heartbeat abortion ban.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 law prohibits abortion at the point at which a preborn baby\u2019s heartbeat can first be detected, at approximately six weeks of pregnancy. The Center for Reproductive Rights and the state\u2019s sole abortion provider, Red River Women\u2019s Clinic, soon challenged the law.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->US District Court Judge Daniel Hovland blocked the law as an unconstitutional infringement on Roe v. Wade in April 2014, and an 8<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld his decision in July.<\/p>\n<p>If the Supreme Court takes the case, it could be the closest they\u2019ve come to reconsidering <a href=\"\/news\/the-case-against-roe-v-wade-and-planned-parenthood-v-casey\/\">Roe v. Wade&#8217;s central holding<\/a> since the original 1973 decision.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative justices such as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas have repeatedly written that there is no constitutional right to abortion since then, but all of SCOTUS\u2019s abortion cases since then have revolved around peripheral regulations of abortion or prohibiting partial-birth abortion, a particular procedure well after the limits defined in Roe.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem conceded it would be a \u201clongshot\u201d to expect the Supreme Court to uphold a law limiting abortions to the first five weeks of pregnancy, but maintained it was his duty to defend his state\u2019s laws in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court has granted North Dakota an extension beyond Tuesday\u2019s deadline to petition it to hear the case of the state\u2019s heartbeat abortion ban. The 2013 law prohibits abortion at the point at which a preborn baby\u2019s heartbeat can first be detected, at approximately six weeks of pregnancy. 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