District Judge Daniel Traynor granted the motion to temporarily cease enforcement of recent guidelines that protect workers who are transgender and those seeking abortion and fertility treatments.

A North Dakota judge on Monday granted a request by the Catholic Diocese of Bismarck and a Catholic employment association to temporarily block the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from enforcing part of its anti-discrimination regulations related to abortion,

A state judge has struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable.