BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota won't be allowed to enforce its near total abortion ban while the state appeals a judge's ruling that struck down the law. The latest decision by District Judge Bruce Romanick means that, for now, his September ruling stands while the state appeals it to the North Dakota Supreme Court.

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.