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North Dakota’s Supreme Court has reinstated the state’s abortion ban, lacking enough justices who found it unconstitutional.

The law makes abortion a felony with exceptions only for rape or incest before six weeks of pregnancy and to preserve the pregnant person’s life or health.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Abortion is again illegal in North Dakota after the state’s Supreme Court on Friday couldn’t muster the required majority to uphold a judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s ban last year.

The law makes it a felony crime for anyone to perform an abortion, though it specifically protects patients from prosecution. Doctors could be prosecuted and penalized by as much as five years in

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