{"id":20735,"date":"2013-06-11T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20735"},"modified":"2013-06-11T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:30:20","slug":"states-abortion-law-defense-bill-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20735","title":{"rendered":"State&#8217;s Abortion Law Defense Bill Climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The North Dakota Attorney General&#8217;s office is getting an additional $30,000 to help cover the costs to defend a 2011 state law that seeks to limit the use of drugs to terminate pregnancies.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota&#8217;s Emergency Commission unanimously approved the funding on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota has spent more than $52,000 defending the 2011 state law. Records show that Dr. Donna Harrison has billed the state more than $49,000 to act as an expert witness in the case.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 East Central Judge Wickham Corwin said in April that he will rule in favor of the state&#8217;s sole abortion clinic in its challenge of the state law. Corwin has not officially ruled on the case.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawyers for the state say they would appeal if Corwin rules against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The North Dakota Attorney General&#8217;s office is getting an additional $30,000 to help cover the costs to defend a 2011 state law that seeks to limit the use of drugs to terminate pregnancies. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota&#8217;s Emergency Commission unanimously approved the funding on Tuesday. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735","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=20735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20737,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735\/revisions\/20737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}