In 1915, the North Dakota Legislature passed a bill intended to make life easier for widowed women raising children.

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FARGO — Cindy Phillips remembers vividly the energy and excitement she felt attending a historic conference in 1977, in the middle of the women’s rights movement. “It was ahh-mazing,” she said. In her ...

A state judge overturned the North Dakota's near-total abortion ban on Thursday, making the procedure legal in the Republican-led state. Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the ...