A US state district judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable.
In his ruling, state District Judge Bruce Romanick also said the law violates the state constitution because it is too vague.
Under the judge's order, abortion would be legal in North Dakota, but the state currently has no clinics performing the procedure, and the Republican-dominated state government would be expected to appeal the ruling.
The state's only abortion provider had been the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo, but it moved a few miles to Minnesota, in 2022, after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a law that gave women the right to choose abortion for nearly 50 years and allowed states to ban abortion.
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