An abortion clinic in North Dakota has raised more than $500,000 in two days to fund its move to Minnesota

• North Dakota’s solely abortion clinic has been amassing funds to maneuver to Minnesota after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
• In two days, the Crimson River Ladies’s Clinic raised greater than $550,000.
• Shifting out of North Dakota, nevertheless, means there’ll not be an working abortion clinic within the state.

An abortion clinic based mostly in North Dakota has raised greater than $550,000 to fund its transfer within the two days because the Supreme Court docket’s resolution to roll again Roe v. Wade. 

The Crimson River Ladies’s Clinic of Fargo, North Dakota, arrange a GoFundMe to help with a deliberate transfer to Moorhead, Minnesota. North Dakota is likely one of the at the least 13 states that has a “set off” legislation, which instantly bans abortions following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. 

The transfer to Minnesota has been within the works since stories that overturning the case was a chance, Tammi Kromenaker, clinic director for Crimson River Ladies’s Clinic, beforehand instructed Insider.

However transferring out of North Dakota means there’ll not be an working abortion clinic within the state. 

“RRWC has served as North Dakota’s solely abortion clinic for over 20 years,” the GoFundMe web page reads. “As a state with a trigger-ban in place, North Dakota would ban abortion in 30 days if Roe v Wade is overturned.”

The transfer is a part of a contingency plan to proceed to supply reproductive well being providers to sufferers, the GoFundMe says. Moorhead, Minnesota, is positioned just some miles away from the Crimson River, which may assist these in North Dakota nonetheless have entry to an abortion clinic, per the GoFundMe. 

The choice to overturn Roe v. Wade sparked protests nationwide. Because the resolution was made public, a slew of outstanding people from musician Jack White to lawmakers akin to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have blasted the ruling. Lawyer Common Merrick Garlan condemned the court docket’s resolution, saying on Friday that it is a “devastating blow to reproductive freedom in america.”

By overturning Roe, the Supreme Court docket has put the query of the legality of abortion within the arms of particular person state legislatures and has basically made it unlawful in at the least 22 states to acquire an abortion. There are anticipated to be added restrictions in a number of others.