The state of North Dakota is asking a judge to pause his ruling from last week that struck down North Dakota's abortion ban as unconstitutional.

A state judge has struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable.

Burleigh County District Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that the state's abortion law violates North Dakota Constitution's due process protections.

Abortions are now legal in North Dakota after the state Supreme Court ruled its near-total abortion ban was unconstitutionally vague. The ruling came as part of a lawsuit filed by physicians that asked the court to strike down the ban in its entirety.

North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said the state will appeal a district court decision to strike down North Dakota's abortion law. South Central District Court Judge Bruce Romanick said Thursday the law was unconstitutional due to its "vagueness" and that "pregnant women in North Dakota have a fundamental right to

Romanick ruled that the abortion ban "is unconstitutionally void for vagueness," and that pregnant patients in North Dakota have a fundamental right to abortion before

The North Dakota Attorney General’s Office has asked a judge to keep the state’s abortion ban in place until the North Dakota Supreme Court has a chance to weigh in on the law. South Central Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Romanick last week ruled that the law is “unconstitutionally void for vagueness” and found that