Authority: United States District Court for the District of North Dakota Southwestern Division (USA)

Date: 04/16/2014

Subject: The United States District Court for the District of North Dakota South-western Division stated the constitutional illegitimacy of the House Bill 1456, which prohibited abortion from the moment it was possible to hear the heart-beat of the foetus, because in contrast with the right of the woman to interrupt the pregnancy before the viability (the concrete possibility of keeping and feeding the foetus outside the uterus), as already established by the Supreme Court

Parties: MKB Management Corp., d/b/a Red River Women’s Clinic; and Kathryn L. Eggleston, M.D., vs. Birch Burdick, in his official capacity as State’s Attorney for Cass County, et al.

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 10 Freedom of conscience

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