The Republican crusade against abortion rights continues in the United States, where the state of North Dakota has banned all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. A restrictive norm that the governor of the state, the Republican Doug Burgum, has ratified with his signature this Monday, after the norm was approved by the state Senate, with a conservative majority.

The law is intended to take effect immediately, although the state Supreme Court already halted a “spring law” last month, designed to take effect at the time the US Supreme Court removed constitutional protection of abortion, while its legality is decided.

According to North Dakota legislators, the law ratified this Monday serves to send a message to the state Justice and emphasize that citizens want to restrict abortion, according to the US chain ‘PBS’. The measure also does not include exceptions for cases of rape or incest.

His signing comes just two weeks after the governor of FloridaRon DeSantis, also a conservative, will sign a similar law that prohibits abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, although its entry into force depends on what the Justice of that state decides.

The battle for the restriction or protection of abortion has been waged at the state level since last summer the Supreme Court of the North American country withdrew the constitutional protection of this right, which had been in force since the 1970s. The Planned Parenthood organization, which manages the largest network of reproductive health clinics in the US, estimates that since then 18 out of 50 states have banned or severely restricted abortion and that in 13 of them access to this service is impossible in practice, although there are exceptions.