North Dakota legislature passes abortion bans

The North Dakota House and Senate have passed two abortion bans – HB 1305 that bans sex-selection and genetic selection abortion and HB 1456 that bans abortion after the baby has a detectable heartbeat.  The bills await the governor’s signature. Neither qualifies as a Personhood bill.

Regarding HB 1305, the pro-aborts (ACLU, Planned Parenthood and other assorted baby-killers) can’t stand the thought of Down Syndrome babies escaping alive.  So the pro-abortion mob gathers with torches and pitchforks to hunt down the Frankenstein monster.

And what if a mother can’t kill her baby simply because the baby is a girl? Can you imagine what it’s like to live as a female? Oh, no! No one should have to endure that type of torture. Death is really the only sensible option.

HB 1456 doesn’t ban abortion after the baby’s heartbeat actually begins, at about 3 weeks, but after the heartbeat becomes detectable with standard medical equipment.

Regarding the heartbeat bill, Erik Eckholm of The New Times reports:

The bill does not specify a time threshold or whether doctors with a patient in the initial weeks of pregnancy must use the transvaginal probe. A proposed law in Virginia last year that would have required use of the transvaginal ultrasound caused a national outcry, and the bill was ultimately shelved. Arkansas declared a 12-week limit specifically to avoid that controversy.

The pro-aborts feigned rage over some bills because of the invasiveness of a transvaginal ultrasound. Of course, surgical abortion is far more invasive; the killing instruments don’t just stop in the vagina but penetrate into the uterus. How else can an abortionist rip apart the baby if the vacuum tube, curette and forceps don’t intrude where the baby lives?