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U.S. NEWS Saturday 12 January 2019

North Dakota House considers ‘abortion reversal’ bill

It’s the first time in six years abortion if they don’t take the state’s lone abortion
the Republican-led Legisla- the second drug. clinic, the Red River Wom-
ture has had the appetite There is no medical evi- en’s Clinic in Fargo, involve
to undertake such legis- dence to support that the use of mifepristone and
lation, after several anti- claim that the procedure misoprostol. Clinic director
abortion laws were struck can be reversed, said Eliz- Tammi Kromenaker said up
down in the courts and abeth Nash, state issues to 40 percent of the 1,150
two of the most vocal anti- manager at the New York- abortions the clinic per-
abortion lawmakers were based Guttmacher Insti- forms each year are done
booted by voters. tute, an abortion rights re- by using a combination of
GOP Rep. Daniel Johnston search organization. the two drugs.
said he is sponsoring the bill “What this amounts to is “North Dakota politicians
this session so that “women essentially misinformation are once again intruding
having second thoughts” because the science isn’t into the doctor-patient re-
are ensured they have there,” Nash said. lationship rather than look-
“options.” Planned Parenthood ing out for the well being
The so-called “abortion re- spokeswoman Jen Aulwes of North Dakota women,”
versal” measure would re- agreed that the science Kromenaker said. “Legislat-
quire abortion practitioners was flawed said there is ing a speculative medical
to notify women undergo- no medically accepted theory is a really bad idea
ing medical abortions, in evidence that a drug-in- and would not be given
which two drugs are taken duced abortion can be in- serious consideration for
separately, that they may terrupted. any other type of medical
be able to discontinue the Medication abortions at care.”q

In this Feb. 20, 2013 file photo, an abortion protester stands
outside the Red River Valley Women’s Clinic in Fargo, N.D., the
state’s lone abortion facility.
Associated Press
By JAMES MacPHERSON undergoing drug-induced
Associated Press abortions that it’s possible
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — they could still have a live
North Dakota’s House will birth if they change their
consider legislation that mind, a claim abortion-
would require abortion rights groups say is unsup-
providers to inform women ported by science.

Police kill armed man at Oregon
school amid custody dispute

By ANDREW SELSKY By Friday afternoon, offi-
GILLIAN FLACCUS cers were escorting small
Associated Press groups of children to a
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Po- church across the street
lice fatally shot a man Fri- where parents had gath-
day who showed up with a ered.
gun at an Oregon middle Yellow crime scene tape
school amid a custody dis- surrounded the school’s
pute, but no one else was main parking lot and a
injured, authorities said. yellow tarp covered the
The man was being es- suspect’s body, which lay
corted from Cascade just a few feet from one en-
Middle School in the city trance.
of Eugene when he began “No students were harmed
struggling and pulled out a whatsoever. All the stu-
gun, police Lt. Jennifer Bills dents are safe,” Bills said.
told reporters. She initially Parent Stephanie Martin
said the shooting was in- waited for her two children
side the school. at the church. She said her
Students were locked in son, who is in sixth grade,
classrooms, and the school called her to say he was OK
was locked down for near- and so was his sister, who is
ly four hours while police in the seventh grade.
investigated in the city “The kids are all safe, that’s
about 110 miles (177 kilo- all we know. But that’s all I
meters) south of Portland care about,” Martin said.
and home of the University “It’s crazy, the world is cra-
of Oregon. zy.” q