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D.C. (NewsDakota.com) – The US Supreme Court will not take up a case involving North Dakota’s restrictive abortion law.

The law – which had been dubbed the “heartbeat law,” said abortions could not be performed when a fetal heartbeat was detected – and that could be as early as six weeks. Lower federal courts had declared it unconstitutional. North Dakota appealed that ruling to the high court, which declined to take the case.

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says he wasn’t surprised.

Stenehjem says he now considers it to be settled law.