A state judge has put brakes on an Oklahoma law limiting access to drug-induced abortions. The judge said the rule is unconstitutional as it does not apply to other kinds of medication.

It was last year when Oklahoma’s Supreme Court temporarily halted enforcement of two state laws curbing women’s access to abortion. Republican Governor Mary Fallin signed both laws into laws in 2014.

However, Judge Patricia G. Parrish in Oklahoma City blocked one law Monday. The law does not allow non-surgical procedures in which drugs are used to induce an abortion.

Spokesman Aaron Cooper said in an emailed statement that Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt is not happy with the court’s analysis and is looking forward to appeal the ruling.

He said Oklahoma’s legislature was “within its constitutional authority to take steps to prevent off-label uses of abortion drugs in order to protect the health and safety of Oklahoma women”.

If Parrish had not blocked the law, it would have banned the use of abortion-inducing drugs and required doctors to recommend patients the off-label uses of the drugs only when they followed US Food and Drug Administration regulations.

Cooper said doctors are normally allowed to prescribe unapproved FDA drugs for use. The US Supreme Court in June did not allow Texas to enforce a law that according to abortion-rights advocates would have caused closure of 10 of the state’s 19 clinics.

The restrictions in the state will be lifted only after the Supreme Court reaches a decision over the state’s requirement for clinics to meet hospital-like surgical standards and for doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.