The North Dakota House of Representatives has done an end run on Roe vs. Wade. At issue is the definition of when life begins, which the bill defines as taking place at the moment of conception:
The House voted 51-41 this afternoon to declare that a fertilized egg has all the rights of any person.
That means a fetus could not be legally aborted without the procedure being considered murder.
But as Hot Air notes, this thing is far from certain to become law:
The Senate may sit on this bill rather than put North Dakota into a national firestorm over abortion rights. Such a fight would certainly be costly, and likely futile.
So the bill might have about as much chance of becoming law as a 6-week unborn baby has of surviving his mom’s visit to a “Planned” Parenthood clinic. But for now, I’m keeping hope alive and praying that this law has a chance to be born alive.
