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</div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p> <b>Abortion in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></b> is illegal. Article I, Section 12 of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands">Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands</a> states that "<i>The abortion of the unborn child during the mother's pregnancy is prohibited in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, except as provided by law"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> has been passed legalizing <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> in the Northern Mariana Islands. Instead, Northern Mariana Islands criminal law states that performing an abortion is a <a href="/wiki/Crime" title="Crime">crime</a> punishable by up to five years imprisonment.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 1990s, women who wanted to get an abortion often travelled to the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> as there were no legal options in the Marianas under the aforementioned constitution. Women had few options as to where they could get a legal abortion, including <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> or <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legislative_history">Legislative history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Legislative history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Abortion in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">United States territory</a>, is illegal per title 11 of the Trust Territory Code, under section 51, which states:</p><blockquote><p>Every person who shall unlawfully cause the <a href="/wiki/Miscarriage" title="Miscarriage">miscarriage</a> or <a href="/wiki/Premature_labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Premature labour">premature delivery</a> of a woman, with the intent to do so, shall be guilty of <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned for a period of not more than five years.<sup id="cite_ref-" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> This was reaffirmed with amendment no. 3 to the Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands, which states:</p><blockquote><p>The abortion of the unborn child during the mother's pregnancy is prohibited by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, except as provided by law.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> This measure was adopted in <a href="/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was still in place in <a href="/wiki/2024" title="2024">2024</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, the law was debated after <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Pangelinan_Tenorio" title="Pedro Pangelinan Tenorio">Gov. Pedro Tenorio</a> asked the <a href="/wiki/Attorney_general" title="Attorney general">attorney general</a> to review the constitutionality of the 1985 law.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The opinion of an attorney general as to the constitutionality of a law, of course, is merely an opinion and does not nullify a statute. Accordingly, the opinion only served to generate confusion with respect to the legality of abortion within the commonwealth.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Any confusion was eliminated with the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a>'s decision in <i><a href="/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization" title="Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization">Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</a></i> in 2022, which eliminated the U.S. constitutional right to an abortion first articulated by the court in its 1973 <i><a href="/wiki/Roe_v_Wade" class="mw-redirect" title="Roe v Wade">Roe v Wade</a></i> decision.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Judicial_history">Judicial history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Judicial history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> In a 1971 case, <i>Trust Territory v. Tarkong</i>, the <a href="/wiki/Appellate_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Appellate Court">Appellate Court</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Trust_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Trust Territory">Trust Territory</a> (see also <a href="/wiki/United_States_territorial_court" title="United States territorial court">United States territorial court</a>) held:</p><blockquote><p>As far as the woman herself is concerned, unless the abortion statute expressly makes her responsible, it is generally held, although the statute reads any "person", that she is not liable to any criminal prosecution, whether she solicits the act or performs it upon herself.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Although abortion is illegal within the commonwealth, in practice, abortions to save the life of the mother or when <a href="/wiki/Pregnancy_from_rape" title="Pregnancy from rape">pregnancy is the result of rape</a> or <a href="/wiki/Incest" title="Incest">incest</a> occur without <a href="/wiki/Prosecution" class="mw-redirect" title="Prosecution">prosecution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Financing">Financing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Financing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1998, the only reason an abortion would be eligible for <a href="/wiki/Public_funding" class="mw-redirect" title="Public funding">public funding</a> was if it was a result of rape or incest, or if continuing the pregnancy would endanger the life of the woman. This policy has been in place 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