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Bismarck, ND – Liberty Counsel is pleased to support pro-life legislation passed last week in North Dakota. The North Dakota Senate overwhelmingly approved two pro-life bills on Friday: the first prohibits aborting a preborn baby because of a genetic defect, such as Down syndrome. The second bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

“Cost should not be a part of Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s decision to sign or veto the bills,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Liberty Counsel will defend these laws pro bono. No rights are more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant.”

“Society has protected unborn babies, dating from ancient Greece to the present day,” Staver said. “Common law in England and the United States, with support from the medical and legal professions, recognized that ‘[l]ife is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent in every individual; and it begins in contemplation of law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother’s womb.’” This understanding remained the prevailing view in the United States through the middle of the 20th Century, when a societal shift prompted a liberalization of criminal laws, including Roe v. Wade.

“However, in personal injury, criminal, and wills and estate law, the law has continued to recognize the unborn child as a human with legal protections, not merely a ‘potential’ human being,” Staver said. “The U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion cases are an aberration to law and stand on an island by themselves, and that island will one day disappear. We need to protect human life at all stages of development,” said Staver.

Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topic.
 

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