Though it carries many exceptions, North Dakota recently passed a law that is so restrictive on abortion it in some regards essentially bans it:

Gov. Jack Dalrymple…signed into law…

— The earliest state abortion ban, one based on an unborn child’s heartbeat, which could be as soon as six weeks into gestation;

— The first state law to prohibit abortion on the basis of a genetic irregularity in the unborn baby.

That second note is specifically aimed at incidents like Down Syndrome, with some statistics suggesting more than 90% of all Down Syndrome predictions result in abortion.  Down Syndrome is a completely viable genetic condition, as are many ‘undesirable’ genetic or physical characteristics.

Perhaps one day all such innocents will have justice.  In the meantime, North Dakota seems to be doing what it can.

Elsewhere, legislation would allow military facilities to perform privately-funded abortions, and a family sued their abortion clinic for a failed abortion attempt that the (healthy) child survived.

That’s the moral state of the world we live in.

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