Yes, let's backtrack on birth control and allow more unplanned pregnancies, make stem cell research illegal so we can restrict avenues of research, and you know what? Let's make in vitro illegal as well so that people who have difficulties getting pregnant will definitely not be able to have children. Oh and at the same time, if you're raped you must have any child conceived, if there's a 90% of you dying from a pregnancy -well, that's just too bad now isn't it?-. This is absurd, I really think that in the future this time period will be looked at as odd for how it treats embryo's and dealing with this entire situation. For now, I'll just have to deal with being angry at the State politicians that decide that all of this is okay.The amendment would ban abortion in the state, without exceptions for rape, incest or life of the mother, and it could affect the legality of some forms of birth control, stem cell research and in vitro fertilization.
So, there's nothing to prevent anyone from travelling out of state to get an abortion. However, it's scary that any complications in childbirth that had to be dealt with immediately would not be handled properly, which would jeopardize the mother's life. I just can't even fathom the quantity of incompetence that these people possess. It's out of this world.
That leads to a slippery slope though. A state could say "well, you could always go to the next one over", and many states could adopt this mentality until you have entire regions of the country that you would have to travel through.
I'm not saying the North Dakota thing is acceptable. It's not, it can endanger peoples lives. The point I was trying to make (and wasn't very clear about) is that this sort of legislation won't be effective in stopping what they want to stop. The only thing it accomplishes is putting mother's lives in danger in the case of an emergency, and making it inconvenient for women to get abortions. No matter your view on abortion, it accomplishes nothing.