(Bismarck, ND) — A district court judge is denying the state’s request to keep an abortion ban in place until the state Supreme Court issues its ruling. In his order, District Court Judge Bruce Romanick wrote that “it would be nonsensical for this Court to keep a law it has found to be unconstitutional in effect pending appeal.” North Dakota’s state legislature enacted the ban in 2023, making abortion illegal in all cases except rape or incest if the mother has been pregnant for less than six weeks — or when the pregnancy poses a serious physical health threat. Last month, Romanick found the state’s abortion ban unconstitutionally vague.
