North Dakota Abortion Control Act

North Dakota · 14 · §§ 14-02.1-01 to 14-02.1-12 · 25 sections

Overview

The act governs the performance of abortion, setting the conditions under which the procedure may lawfully be provided and defining the circumstances in which it is prohibited. Its core mechanism is an informed-consent framework — required printed and referral information, disclosure and notification duties before the procedure, posted notice at facilities, and parental consent or judicial authorization where the patient is an unmarried minor — backed by a civil action for damages when an abortion is performed without informed consent. It further bars specified categories of abortion, including sex-selective abortions, abortions sought because of a genetic abnormality, dismemberment procedures, and abortions after a detectable heartbeat in an unborn child or beyond a defined postfertilization age, while imposing reporting, recordkeeping, patient-privacy, born-alive protection, and humane fetal-remains disposal duties enforced through criminal penalties.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-01Purpose
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-02Definitions
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-02.1Printed information - Referral service
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-02.2Abortion report form
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-03Consent to abortion - Notification requirements
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-03.1Parental consent or judicial authorization for abortion of unmarried minor - Statement of intent
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-03.2Civil damages for performance of abortions without informed consent
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-03.3Privacy of woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-03.4Required notice at abortion facility
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-03.5Abortion-inducing drugs
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-04Limitations on the performance of abortions - Penalty
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-04.1Prohibition - Sex-selective abortion - Abortion for genetic abnormality - Penalty
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-04.2Prohibition on human dismemberment abortion - Penalty
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-05Preserving life of a viable child - Penalty
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-05.1Determination of detectable heartbeat in unborn child before abortion - Exception
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-05.2Abortion after detectable heartbeat in unborn child prohibited - Exception - Penalty
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-05.3Determination of postfertilization age - Abortion of unborn child of twenty or more weeks postfertilization age prohibited
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-06Soliciting abortions
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-07Records required - Reporting of practice of abortion
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-07.1Forms
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-08Protection of infant born alive - Penalty
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-09Humane disposal of nonviable unborn child
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-10Concealing stillbirth or death of infant - Penalty
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-11General penalty
N.D. Cent. Code § 14-02.1-12Short title

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