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N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota attorney general’s office is fighting an attempt to include a new lawsuit onto a challenge of a 2011 abortion law that a judge has called unconstitutional.

East Central Judge Wickham Corwin said last month that he will rule in favor of the state’s sole abortion clinic in its challenge of a state law that limits the use of drugs to terminate pregnancies. Corwin has not officially ruled on the case.

New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit in state court this month challenging a new state law that requires doctors who perform abortions to obtain hospital-admitting privileges. The group says the 2013 law raises the same “legal and factual matters” as the 2011 law.  State attorneys say the laws are “separate and distinct.”