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 state of North Dakota is asking a Burleigh County judge to let an abortion ban law remain in effect while it appeals the judge’s recent decision allowing access to abortion in the state.

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