Civil Liberties

North Dakota May Soon Have No Abortion Providers

If restrictive new law goes into effect

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For women seeking abortions in North Dakota, there's only one place to go.

Soon, it could close its doors.

For more than a decade, women have driven for hundreds of miles, sometimes up to eight hours, to visit the Red River Women's Clinic in downtown Fargo -- the lone abortion provider in North Dakota since 2001 -- then getting back in their cars after the procedure to drive home.

"It happens all the time," said Tammi Kromenaker, the clinic's director, reading off directions for a woman who was soon to travel six hours and 17 minutes from the heart of North Dakota's booming oil country.