Kathy Hawken, Pro-Choice Republican, Speaks Out On Her Views

Pro-Choice Republican Speaks Out On 'Distressing' GOP Trend
North Dakota state Rep. Kathy Hawken, R-Fargo, makes a last-minute plea to North Dakota House Republicans who chose a House speaker on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, during a meeting in the conference room of Great River Energy's office building in Bismarck. Hawken lost and Rep. David "Skip" Drovdal, R-Arnegard, be the House speaker. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)
North Dakota state Rep. Kathy Hawken, R-Fargo, makes a last-minute plea to North Dakota House Republicans who chose a House speaker on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, during a meeting in the conference room of Great River Energy's office building in Bismarck. Hawken lost and Rep. David "Skip" Drovdal, R-Arnegard, be the House speaker. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)

While a majority of her colleagues in the North Dakota Legislature were working furiously to advance the single most draconian pre-viability abortion ban in the country (and a series of restrictions aimed exclusively at shuttering the state’s last remaining abortion clinic), Kathy Hawken was working just as hard to stop them.

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