ND Supreme Court reviews abortion ban

An attorney for North Dakota has asked the state Supreme Court to strike down an injunction that had blocked the state’s abortion ban, saying a lower court judge was wrong to grant it.

Attorney Matthew Sagsveen told justices today that Judge Bruce Romanick “misconstrued the law” by granting the injunction. Romanick’s ruling means abortion is still legal in North Dakota.

Clinic Attorney Meetra Mehdizadeh argued that vacating the injunction would be “extraordinary.” Mehdizadeh called North Dakota’s abortion ban one of the most extreme in the country.  “There is nothing more in keeping with the purpose of the North Dakota  constitution than to protect the most personal and significant decision that impacts ones bodily integrity.”  She says patients, doctors and hospitals in North Dakota are still at risk even though the clinic has moved.

The Fargo clinic moved to neighboring Moorhead (MN) shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.