The Myrdal Amendment: A Budget Backroom Deal That Betrays North Dakotans
April 18th, 2025 Prairie Action ND Right now, anti-choice lawmakers are trying to sneak a $1 million taxpayer-funded political campaign into the state budget. The Myrdal Amendment, quietly tacked onto the critical Office of Management and Budget funding bill, creates a so-called ‘Life Committee’ campaign and allocates $1 million in taxpayer money to fund it. […]
Feeding Special Interests While Families Struggle
April 10th, 2025 Amy Jacobson, Executive Director, Prairie Action ND Right now, the North Dakota Legislature is considering a slate of so-called “education savings account” bills. Whatever the poll-tested “school choice” label of the week is, don’t be fooled — they do the same thing in effect: drain public dollars that could support our public […]
Letter: Potential impact of ‘personhood’ bill is staggering
Sydney Stock February 4, 2025 A deeply troubling bill, House Bill 1373, has been introduced in the North Dakota legislature. This so-called “personhood” bill aims to redefine the term “human being” within the state’s criminal code to include fertilized eggs — specifically “upon the fusion of a human sperm and egg”. Such a change […]
Repro Health Bills at the State Legislature
Amy Jacobson, Executive DirectorPrairie Action ND January 29, 2025 The state legislature is debating several bills impacting reproductive health- your voice is needed! House Bill 1373 is a radical ‘Personhood’ bill at the state legislature. At its core, this bill seeks to redefine the term “human being” to mean a fertilized egg—upon the fusion […]
The people of North Dakota deserve better than HCR 3003
Amy Jacobson, Executive DirectorPrairie Action ND January 16, 2025 The people of North Dakota deserve better than House Concurrent Resolution 3003 — a proposal at the state legislature that would undermine our rights and our civic powers as citizens. This resolution, like last year’s Measure 2, is an attack on our ability to shape our […]
Right to Read ND Launches to Fight Censorship
Right to Read North Dakota January 16, 2025 [Bismarck, ND] – Right to Read ND, a nonpartisan group of North Dakotans dedicated to protecting intellectual freedom and fighting censorship, officially launched today. Right to Read ND is a group of parents and citizens who have come together in response to the growing movement in North […]
North Dakota politicians should resist the urge to legislate private, medical decisions
Kylie Oversen January 9, 2025 “As our state legislative assembly convenes in Bismarck, I call on my district’s legislators and legislators across the state to focus on issues that are truly impacting North Dakotan’s daily lives, and to stay away from attempting to legislate private, medical decisions. A poll commissioned by the North Dakota News Cooperative, […]
Working for a Better North Dakota: Our Legislative Priorities for 2025
Amy Jacobson, Executive Director, Prairie Action North Dakota January 4, 2025 Today marks the beginning of the North Dakota legislative session, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. This year, we anticipate a wave of harmful proposals—attacking human rights, undermining public education, and banning books—diverting focus and resources from critical issues like housing, healthcare, and economic security […]
Hanson to introduce bills protecting IVF and contraceptives
For Immediate Release October 28, 2024 FARGO — While North Dakota’s near-total abortion ban awaits final resolution by the state supreme court after being ruled unconstitutional by the district court, many North Dakotans fear that other reproductive health care services like fertility care and contraceptives are at risk. After her breast cancer diagnosis, Shauna Erickson-Abou […]
Can Politics Be Positive?
By: Faye Seidler, Suicide Prevention Advocate May 30, 2024 “I work in suicide prevention, which is work that focuses on hope. While we often think about this topic in regard to mental health, it’s so much broader than that. It’s how we feel connected to our community or not, our access to resources or opportunities, […]