{"id":92976,"date":"2016-01-25T14:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=92976"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:37:42","slug":"stenehjen-no-suprise-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=92976","title":{"rendered":"Stenehjen: &#8220;No surprise,&#8221; Supreme Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84753\" alt=\"StenehjemWayne445\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StenehjemWayne445.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN&#8217;-juhm) says it&#8217;s &#8220;no surprise&#8221; the Supreme Court will not allow the state to enforce a law banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The justices on Monday turned away the state&#8217;s appeal of lower court rulings that struck down the 2013 fetal heartbeat law as unconstitutional. The law never took effect, and abortion rights supporters said it was the strictest anti-abortion measure in the country.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stenehjem called review of the law a &#8220;longshot,&#8221; especially after the high court last week rejected Arkansas&#8217; bid to enforce its own fetal heartbeat law, banning some abortions at 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Stenehjem says he now considers it to be settled law<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opponents say the North Dakota law was an attempt to shutter the state&#8217;s only abortion clinic in Fargo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (STEHN&#8217;-juhm) says it&#8217;s &#8220;no surprise&#8221; the Supreme Court will not allow the state to enforce a law banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The justices on Monday turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92976","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\/92976","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=92976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92980,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92976\/revisions\/92980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}