North Dakota’s abortion ban will remain on hold while the state appeals a judge’s ruling that struck down the law. Judge Bruce Romanick declined to stay his ruling from September that struck down North Dakota’s near-total ban on abortion.

It would be nonsensical for this Court to keep a law it has found to be unconstitutional in effect pending appeal,” South Central Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Romanick wrote

Planned Parenthood has appealed a recent ruling in Monroe County Court which denied a request to expand and clarify an exception to Indiana’s near-total abortion ban. This will move the case to the Indiana Court of Appeals,

The appeal targets a decision handed down in September that refused to expand exceptions to Indiana's near-total abortion ban.