The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review and go over the lower court rulings to North Dakota in accordance of banning abortion at six weeks of pregnancy. The justices was noted to have turned away the state's appeal of decisions, striking down the 2013 fetal heartbeat law as unconstitutional.
According to Yahoo! News, Arkansas had initially presented their own version of fetal heartbeat law last week but was later on rejected. The said law is set to ban abortion at 12 weeks.
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem expressed that it was no surprise that the court had refused to review the said filing. The proposal had been disagreed by a unanimous decision from three (3) panel of judges, originally appointed by George W. Bush in the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland had declared North Dakota's proposal unconstitutional and went off to its total shutting in April 2014. The said filing was also challenged by New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights and Bismac attorney Thomas Dickson in affiliation with the state's abortion provider, Red River Women's Clinic, The Bismarck Tribune shared.
There has been several federal appeals regarding the law and a petition was also moved to Supreme Court's end in November for its further review. The appeals panel of judges has decided to reject it for the law was inconsistent with the Supreme Court standard, even with the presence of North Dakota's request for re-evaluation. The said law was approved by North Dakota in 2013 but promptly put on hold by the higher court because of the aforementioned inconsistencies, ABC News cited.
In this regard, no new abortion law and rulings have been pushed through for the past year. It is said that lawmakers need to know the citizens are also alert and concerned about all issues especially if it is about abortion and pregnancy-related matters.
