North Dakota’s Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa adopted a resolution prohibiting abortion on the reservation and property owned by the tribe. According to newspaper accounts here, here, and here a critic of the resolution claims that it violates procedural rules, Roe v. Wade, impacts the Violence Against Women Act, and imposes religious beliefs. Putting aside for now the procedural questions and Roe, it is difficult to see how it would violate the Violence Against Women Act since that act does not mandate abortion procedures. The religious imposition claim also makes no sense. The mere fact that some or even a majority of citizens rely on a religious belief in support of a particular policy does not make the policy invalid.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an interview on “Meet the Press,” misrepresented church history and basic embryology when asked questions about when human life begins. Read more . . .