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Committee amends resolution on pornography to request study after mixed testimony
Summary
After testimony arguing that pornography causes public harm, the House Education Committee amended Senate Concurrent Resolution 4017 to ask legislative management to study whether pornography should be declared a public health hazard; amendment passed 10-4.
The House Education Committee voted to amend Senate Concurrent Resolution 4017 to ask legislative management to study whether pornography should be recognized as a public health hazard. The amendment was proposed after supporters testified that pornography causes societal harm; some committee members said available public-health definitions did not support calling it a public health crisis without further study.
Mark Jorritsma of North Dakota Family Alliance and Christopher Dodson of the North Dakota Catholic Conference both testified in…
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