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

The Red River Women's Clinic—an abortion clinic that used to be the only one in North Dakota before it moved from Fargo to neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota, soon after Roe v. Wade was overturned—and several doctors have challenged North Dakota's abortion ban as unconstitutionally vague for physicians and its health exception as too narrow.

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