North Dakota passed one of those "fetal heartbeat" laws last year:
North Dakota's heartbeat measure was among four anti-abortion bills that Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed into law last year with overwhelming support from the state's Republican-led Legislature. Backed by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, the state's only abortion clinic, the Red River Clinic in Fargo, filed a lawsuit against the heartbeat law last July.
The U.S. District judge said that the North Dakota law "cannot withstand a constitutional challenge."
The North Dakota legislature passed the law to challenge Roe v. Wade, so that the Supreme Court would overturn it.
Nancy Northrup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights praised Hovland's ruling.
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