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.

A judge vacated North Dakota’s abortion ban in a Thursday ruling, finding the law unconstitutionally vague and an infringement on medical freedom. South Central Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Romanick’s order came as part of a lawsuit challenging the law brought last year by reproductive health care doctors and an abortion clinic.

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

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

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