The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to immediately review a lower court ruling that paused enforcement of most abortion restrictions in the state.

In a unanimous opinion issued Tuesday, the judges ordered the case be heard in the Western District of Missouri, turning down a request from Attorney General Andrew Bailey to skip that intermediate step.

Under the state’s constitution , the Supreme Court has the exclusive right to decide whether a law violates the state or federal constitutions. But the judges wrote that even though the underlying case deals with the constitutionality of a state statute, the temporary injunction that Bailey had asked the court to review did not.

Voters in November enshrined the right to an abortion in the Missouri Constitution. Planned Parenthood

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