The state's motion to stay a pending appeal was filed Wednesday. State District Judge Bruce Romanick ruled last week that North Dakota's abortion ban “is unconstitutionally void for vagueness,” and that pregnant women in the state have a fundamental right to abortion before viability under the state constitution.

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

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

The ban was the state’s second attempt to block the procedure. But the judge ruled the state constitution gives women a “fundamental right to choose abortion.”

A North Dakota judge has struck down the state’s near-total abortion ban, ruling that it violates the state’s constitution and clearing the way for the procedure to become legal in the state. District Judge Bruce Romanick wrote that women have a “fundamental right” to abortion before foetal viability under the North Dakota state constitution.

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