Abortion rights rallies planned in 4 North Dakota cities

FARGO — Backers of abortion rights will rally in 4 North Dakota cities on Saturday, Could 14, as a part of a nationwide “Bans Off Our Our bodies” demonstration.

Organizers intention to ship a message that “abortion entry have to be protected,” they mentioned in a press release.

A Fargo rally is ready for six p.m. at Metropolis Corridor.

The three different rallies are scheduled for 10 a.m. to midday. At the moment, demonstrators will collect on the North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck, Independence Park in Grand Forks and Oak Park Shelter 9 in Minot.

ACLU North Dakota, ERA Now, North Dakota WIN Fund, North Dakota Girls’s Community, Deliberate Parenthood North Central States, Prairie Motion ND and the Crimson River Girls’s Clinic, North Dakota’s solely abortion supplier, are supporting the rallies, in response to the organizers’ assertion.

The rallies come on the heels of Politico publishing a leaked draft opinion on Could 2 that advised the vast majority of Supreme Court docket justices has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 resolution that kinds the muse of authorized abortion within the U.S.

If the Supreme Court docket does dismantle Roe,

abortion could be outlawed in North Dakota because of the state’s “set off” regulation

.

The North Dakota Legislature handed

a “set off” regulation in 2007

that will ban abortion inside 30 days if the Supreme Court docket ever modified path on the controversial process.

The regulation would make it a Class C felony for anybody to carry out an abortion, except a pregnant feminine performs an abortion on herself. A Class C felony is punishable by as much as 5 years in jail and a $10,000 superb.

There could be exceptions to the abortion ban if the mom’s life is in peril and in circumstances of rape or incest.

A dozen different states have related set off legal guidelines, together with Texas, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming. The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights analysis group, estimates a complete of 26 states, together with Montana, are “sure or probably” to ban abortion if the Supreme Court docket overturns Roe v. Wade.

If the excessive court docket overturns Roe, Congress might go federal laws to make abortion authorized or unlawful throughout the entire nation.