Federal Judge in North Dakota Blocks the Nation’s Earliest and Most Extreme Abortion Ban

Judge calls law banning abortion as early as six weeks “clearly invalid and unconstitutional” under U.S. Supreme Court precedent

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 22, 2013.  A federal judge ruled today that North Dakota’s law banning abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy—before many women even know they are pregnant—cannot take effect while the legal challenge brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights, on behalf of the state’s only abortion clinic, is ongoing.

According to U.S. District…