Abortion Policy in North Dakota

Randi Lamoureux, a mom from Fargo. (Photo provided by Free & Just via the North Dakota Monitor)

(North Dakota Monitor) – Even before federal abortion-rights protections were overturned three years ago, a Fargo mother says she had to travel hundreds of miles and across state lines to end a life-threatening pregnancy.

Randi Lamoureux, an educator and business owner, became pregnant with her son Lammy in 2017. At 19 weeks, he was diagnosed with a severe fetal abnormality called DiGeorge syndrome. Lamoureux’s doctor told her that both she and Lammy were at risk for cardiac arrest if she stayed pregnant.

Lamoureux said she had to travel more than 300 miles for care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

By the time she could make the trip, she was almost too far along under that state’s law.

“That was literally the absolute last day that I could get it in Minnesota,” she said. “More than 24 hours later, I would have had to have gone to another state.”