HB1373 would have defined the term “human being” under state law to include an “unborn child” from the “moment of fertilization.”
The House failed to pass HB1373 on February 12, 2025, by a vote of 16 to 77. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill would have abolished abortion in North Dakota by ensuring that preexisting statutes pertaining to murder and assault, as well as civil actions from wrongful death, equally protect the lives of preborn children. Given that the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, North Dakota ought to abolish abortion entirely. Abortion is murder, and no person has a right to take the “life or limb” of a preborn child. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and secured by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
