Bishops come out against North Dakota personhood

 

The Jamestown Sun: It's created a flurry of questions and doubts from not only abortion rights groups but from anti-abortion activists and North Dakota's Roman Catholic bishops, who worry the bill may prove to be poorly worded if challenged in court. "After consulting with various experts, including some with extensive and lengthy experience in abortion law, the bishops concluded that the bill's existing language raises many unanswered questions, could lead to unintended consequences and injustices, and would not achieve the goal of providing a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade," the North Dakota Catholic Conference said in a prepared release last week. The bishops and many other people wonder how such a law could affect existing statutes on legislative apportionment, taxes, government programs and anything else that involves enumerating individual citizens or residents. Could a pregnant woman who answers the door to a Census taker count herself as two persons? Could parents claim a tax deduction for a baby not yet born? How about programs like food stamps and other government aid doled out according to family size?

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