Three more Republican-led states banned almost all abortions this week as yet another slate of laws severely limiting the procedure took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Lawyers for North Dakota's only abortion clinic, which recently moved a few miles to Minnesota, have asked for a delay as they pursue a lawsuit challenging the ban.
To date, 13 states have passed so-called trigger laws that were designed to outlaw most abortions if the Supreme Court threw out the constitutional right to end a pregnancy.