![Issued by a federal district court, Wednesday's order permanently blocks the law, which would have banned abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/gavel-and-stethoscope1-187x125.jpg)
Issued by a federal district court, Wednesday’s order permanently blocks the law, which would have banned abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy.
![The settlement will keep open the state's only abortion clinic but won't prevent future challenges to the law.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/settled-gavel-187x125.jpg)
The settlement will keep open the state’s only abortion clinic but won’t prevent future challenges to the law.
![RH Reality Check spoke with reproductive health-care professionals, including abortion providers, about their concerns regarding the vague language in the bill and how it could affect access to reproductive health care in the state.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/south-dakota-legislature-187x125.jpg)
RH Reality Check spoke with reproductive health-care professionals, including abortion providers, about their concerns regarding the vague language in the bill and how it could affect access to reproductive health care in the state.
![Anti-choice lawmakers and activists believe the drop is due to more women becoming educated about abortion and choosing to carry pregnancies to term, while reproductive rights advocates offer a different take: Harsh restrictions on access to abortion and reproductive health care have led to the decline.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/doctor-empty-chairs-187x125.jpg)
Anti-choice lawmakers and activists believe the drop is due to more women becoming educated about abortion and choosing to carry pregnancies to term, while reproductive rights advocates offer a different take: Harsh restrictions on access to abortion and reproductive health care have led to the decline.
![The 2-1 ruling requires crisis pregnancy centers disclose whether they have licensed medical providers at their facilities.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/gavelslam-187x125.jpg)
Saying a North Dakota law that bans abortions based on gender or fetal anomaly doesn’t apply to them, the Red River Women’s Clinic asked a federal court to dismiss its legal challenge to the law.
![Conservatives asked the Roberts Court to review and reverse a federal appeals court decision that for-profit companies are not "people" with religious exercise rights.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/guy-with-petition-187x125.jpg)
Angry that he was unable to gather enough signatures in time, the sponsor of an amendment to put anti-choice bills up for a vote blames the only abortion provider in the state for the effort’s failure.
![The ACLU of Colorado has filed a complaint with a state agency alleging that a rural Catholic hospital is in violation of both federal and state law by directing its doctors not to discuss abortion with patients, even when pregnancy threatens the life of the pregnant person.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/crrlawsuit-187x125.jpg)
Reproductive rights activists filed a lawsuit Wednesday to try and keep the state’s only abortion clinic open.
![The Center for Reproductive Rights filed suit today challenging two laws passed in North Dakota designed to end safe abortion in the state.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/northdakotacapitol-187x125.jpg)
A look at the past shows that whatever avenue is taken, the fight for abortion rights in North Dakota will be long and expensive.
![The state's only abortion clinic is getting financial support, while the governor is receiving spiritual "attaboys."](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-03-27-marty-187x125.jpg)
As news spreads that the most devastating abortion laws in the nation were signed in North Dakota, the state’s only abortion clinic is getting financial support, while the governor is receiving spiritual “attaboys.”
![Anti-choice regulations are forcing Ohio reproductive health clinics to close, restricting access to safe, legal abortion in the state.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141022231138im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-03-26-marty-187x125.jpg)
If the state’s one abortion clinic can’t continue to operate, it doesn’t matter if abortion is banned at 20 weeks, at six weeks, or at the moment of conception. The TRAP law will mean the end of abortion access in North Dakota.