North Dakota Family Alliance's Statement on Judge Romanick's Ruling Against ND Abortion Law

North Dakota Family Alliance is deeply disappointed in yesterday’s ruling by Judge Bruce Romanick to strike down our state’s abortion law. The court ruled against pro-life values, citing that our state’s abortion law was unconstitutional due to “vagueness,” and because, “pregnant women in North Dakota have a fundamental right to choose abortion before viability exists under the enumerated and unenumerated interests protected by the North Dakota Constitution”. We strongly disagree.

Unrestricted access to abortion is now possible in North Dakota, putting women and the unborn children they carry at extreme risk. Our meticulously crafted law has been thrown out by the court in a ruling derived from activist decision-making and personal opinion.

The court’s ruling dismantles years of careful work done to protect unborn North Dakota children – laws put in place by the North Dakota Legislature with an overwhelming level of support. This decision has the power to make North Dakota one of the most liberal states in our nation on the issue of abortion and is clearly not the will of the people, as evidenced by decades of protecting life in this state.

North Dakota Family Alliance always has and always will fight ardently to protect and defend life in the state of North Dakota and to represent your values. The North Dakota Attorney General’s office has stated that they will appeal this judgment, and we pray the North Dakota Supreme Court will reverse this poorly reasoned decision.