The clinic moved to its current location in downtown Fargo in 1998. It was the site of intense protests in the early 1990s sparked by a national group that locked themselves to cars, trees, street signs and other objects. The first abortion clinic in Fargo opened in 1981, in a two-story house that was more than 70 years old.
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Updated to include drought zones while tracking water shortage status of your area, plus reservoir levels and a list of restrictions for the Bay Area’s largest water districts. “I think we're preparing for tomorrow to be the last clinic day in North Dakota for a while.” “I'm not holding my breath for an injunction," Spaeth said. It also argues that Attorney General Drew Wrigley prematurely started the 30-day countdown for the law to take effect. The lawsuit argues that a ban would be contrary to the state constitution. Wade precedent establishing a right to abortion. The clinic is suing in state court to block the trigger law, which was passed years ago to take effect if the U.S. To have to do that just get to health care, that’s unacceptable.” “In order to do that, they have to have the resources for adequate transportation, you know, gas money, child care, time off work, they need all those things. “If there is no clinic operating within North Dakota, women will have to travel farther,” Wolff said. Kristi Wolff, executive director of the North Dakota Women's Network, said the women's advocacy group still refers people to the Red River Women's Clinic or to a physician “if that's what's needed.” Wolff said she has fielded numerous calls from women showing “a lot of uncertainty and despair and anger" about what's in store. “To have to cross state lines and to be treated like and spoken about like a criminal in your home state and forced to travel elsewhere, pleading for care, desperate for care,” said Spaeth, spokeswoman for the North Dakota Women In Need fund. That could include helping to pay for trips to Minnesota and Montana. Once North Dakota’s ban takes effect, the nearest abortion clinics will be in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota, a drive of about four hours from Fargo, and in Billings, Montana, which is nearly four hours from North Dakota’s western border.ĭestini Spaeth, the volunteer leader of an independent group that helps fund abortions in North Dakota, is investigating temporary solutions until the Moorhead clinic opens. Planned Parenthood has said it can perform abortions at its own Moorhead facility to fill the gap if needed, but it is not clear if that will happen.
Kromenaker has not said when the new clinic will open and she did not respond to messages Tuesday.
Owner Tammi Kromenaker is building a new clinic in Moorhead, Minnesota, with the aid of nearly $1 million raised through GoFundMe. (AP) - North Dakota's only abortion clinic is preparing for what could be its final day of performing procedures, with a trigger ban due to take effect Thursday that will likely force patients to travel hundreds of miles to receive care pending the clinic's relocation across the border to Minnesota.īarring a judge's intervention, the Red River Women's Clinic will provide abortion services Wednesday then shut down. North Dakota's only abortion clinic is preparing for what could be its final day of performing procedures, with a trigger ban due to take effect Thursday, July 28, 2022, that will likely force patients to travel hundreds of miles to receive care pending the clinic's relocation across the border to Minnesota. Comments FILE - An abortion protester stands outside the Red River Valley Women's Clinic in Fargo, N.D., on Feb.