{"id":15309,"date":"2013-03-22T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15309"},"modified":"2013-03-22T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:32:44","slug":"n-d-legislature-passes-bill-defining-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15309","title":{"rendered":"N.D. Legislature Passes Bill, Defining Human Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13725\" title=\"NDstatecapital\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Mar 22, 2013) &#8211; The North Dakota Legislature has passed a bill that would essentially ban abortion by defining human life as beginning at conception.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bill is one of a series North Dakota lawmakers have passed this year, chipping away at abortion rights. The state&#8217;s Republican governor has not yet indicated whether he will sign it.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Abortion-rights advocates say the so-called &#8220;personhood&#8221; measure and others passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature are unconstitutional and clearly violate the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling that legalized abortion until a fetus is viable, which is usually at 22 to 24 weeks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Other bills awaiting the governor&#8217;s signature would ban abortions sought because of genetic defects such as Down syndrome and when a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Mar 22, 2013) &#8211; The North Dakota Legislature has passed a bill that would essentially ban abortion by defining human life as beginning at conception. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bill is one of a series North Dakota lawmakers have passed this year, chipping away at abortion rights. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15311,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions\/15311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}