BISMARCK – The North Dakota Supreme Court has declined to rehear arguments against their ruling that upheld a state law passed in 2011 that limits drug-induced abortions.
The state’s only abortion clinic petitioned the high court for a rehearing in November to clarify what it called ambiguities in the effects of House Bill 1297.
The bill makes it illegal for doctors to provide medication abortions unless they have a contract with another doctor who has admitting privileges at an area hospital.
The state’s high court upholding the bill’s constitutionality reversed a lower court decision that found it was essentially a ban on drug-induced abortions.
The clinic has ceased providing women with drug-induced abortions since the state Supreme Court’s original ruling in October.
