{"id":57669,"date":"2014-10-28T15:48:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=57669"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:48:30","slug":"nd-supreme-court-upholds-state-law-med-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=57669","title":{"rendered":"ND Supreme Court upholds state law med abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The North Dakota Supreme Court has overturned a lower court judge and upheld a state law limiting the use of drugs to terminate pregnancies.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Supreme Court, in its ruling made public Tuesday, overturned a district judge&#8217;s ruling that called the 2011 law unconstitutional.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 East Central District Judge Wickham Corwin called the law &#8220;simply wrongheaded&#8221; following a three-day trial last year. He previously granted an injunction preventing it from taking effect.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medication abortions at North Dakota&#8217;s sole abortion clinic in Fargo involve the use of a combination of two drugs, Mifeprex and misoprostol.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The North Dakota law maintains that the use of any drug to cause an abortion must meet certain standards. Misoprostol is not labeled as an abortion-inducing drug and, therefore, could not be used by the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The North Dakota Supreme Court has overturned a lower court judge and upheld a state law limiting the use of drugs to terminate pregnancies. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Supreme Court, in its ruling made public Tuesday, overturned a district judge&#8217;s ruling that called the 2011 law unconstitutional. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57669","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\/57669","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=57669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57670,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57669\/revisions\/57670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}