By Diana Novak Jones

(Reuters) -Abortion has again become illegal in North Dakota after the state’s Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower court’s ruling that its near-total ban on abortion was unconstitutional.

Although a 3-2 majority of the North Dakota Supreme Court’s justices voted to uphold the lower court’s ruling, the state’s constitution requires a minimum of four justices to declare a state law unconstitutional and void, according to the opinion.

As a result, the underlying ruling was reversed, and the 2023 law banning nearly all abortions in the state has been reinstated after over a year.

The law makes it a felony for doctors to perform abortions but allows an exception for saving the life of the mother or in cases where her health is at serious risk.

The ban also makes a

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