North Dakota Supreme Court maintains temporary block on abortion ban.

The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that the state's abortion ban will remain blocked while a lawsuit over its constitutionality proceeds. The ban was designed to take effect once the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Red River Women's Clinic, the state's only abortion clinic, shut its doors this summer and moved operations to Moorhead, Minnesota, where abortion remains legal. The clinic's owner is still pursuing the lawsuit. Thirteen states are now enforcing bans on abortion at any point in pregnancy and one more — Georgia — bans it once cardiac activity can be detected, or at about six weeks' gestation.