By Daniel Trotta

(Reuters) -The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a pair of lower court rulings that had blocked the state’s strict abortion ban, once again putting the ban in place at least for now.

The state’s high court ordered a circuit court judge to vacate her injunctions against the abortion ban, saying the judge had applied the wrong standards.

The Supreme Court said one of its prior rulings had established “a more rigorous standard” when blocking a state law.

But the Supreme Court also ordered Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang to re-evaluate her rulings “in light of this standard,” raising the possibility that Zhang could reissue the injunctions on a different legal basis. The underlying lawsuit challenging the law has yet to go to trial.

For now Missouri’s abortion

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