A North Dakota judge has temporarily blocked a law that opponents say would have shut down the state’s only remaining abortion clinic. Due to take effect today, the law requires doctors who provide abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Such requirements can be impossible because abortion providers do not admit enough patients to meet hospital minimums and because some hospitals oppose abortion. Judge Wickham Corwin blocked the law while a legal challenge proceeds, saying “there is obviously no need” for it. Pro-choice activists who departed from San Francisco and New York City last week as part of a nationwide Abortion Rights Freedom Ride gathered at the courthouse Wednesday in support of the Red River Women’s Clinic.