North Dakota’s highest court has ruled that the state’s overturned abortion ban will not be enforced during an appeal of a judge’s ruling that struck down the law in September.

Abortion remains legal for now in North Dakota, though there are no abortion clinics operating there, after the lead plaintiff in the appeal moved into Minnesota.

Those who are pro-abortion can celebrate a victory today as the North Dakota Supreme Court denied the State’s effort to reinstate a near-total ban on the act, which was struck down in District Court in September.

The North Dakota Supreme Court on Friday declined to reinstate a near-total abortion ban as the state’s appeal proceeds. In a Friday majority opinion by Justice Daniel Crothers, the court appeared skeptical of several of the state’s core arguments defending the law,

South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Indiana legislatures are considering bills that would classify abortion as homicide and therefore allow patients who have abortions to be charged with murder.

North Dakota's abortion ban will not be enforced while the state appeals an earlier decision that found it unconstitutional, the state's highest court ruled Friday. That appeal has yet to fully ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota’s abortion ban will not be enforced while the state appeals an earlier decision that found it unconstitutional, the state’s highest court ruled Friday.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s highest court ruled Friday to keep the state’s overturned abortion ban from being enforced during an appeal of a decision by a judge that struck down the ...

North Dakota’s highest court has ruled that the state’s overturned abortion ban will not be enforced during an appeal of a judge’s ruling that struck down the law in September BISMARCK ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota’s highest court ruled Friday to keep the state’s overturned abortion ban from being enforced during an appeal of a decision by a judge that struck down the law ...

North Dakota’s abortion ban will not be enforced while the state appeals an earlier decision that found it unconstitutional, the state's highest court ruled Friday.

While a lawsuit against the state's ban on abortion takes place, the procedure will remain legal in hospital settings only for live-saving measures.