{"id":15837,"date":"2013-04-02T09:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15837"},"modified":"2013-04-02T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:54:57","slug":"conference-committee-defeats-anti-abortion-bill-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15837","title":{"rendered":"Conference Committee Defeats Anti-Abortion Bill Amendment"},"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) &#8211; North Dakota legislative negotiators have killed an amendment to an anti-abortion bill that had threatened a three-year, $1.2 million federal sex education grant for North Dakota State University.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A conference committee of three House members and three senators voted unanimously Tuesday to delete the amendment from a Senate measure. The bill is aimed at outlawing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the disputed premise that a fetus can feel pain at that point.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Republican Rep. Bette Grande of Fargo sponsored the amendment to halt NDSU&#8217;s grant, which provides funding for voluntary sex education to Fargo-area teens with parental consent.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The House voted last month include the amendment in a measure. The original Senate bill will now get a vote in the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota legislative negotiators have killed an amendment to an anti-abortion bill that had threatened a three-year, $1.2 million federal sex education grant for North Dakota State University. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A conference committee of three House members and three senators voted unanimously Tuesday to delete 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-15837","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\/15837","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=15837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15838,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15837\/revisions\/15838"}],"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=15837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}