Texas-based Whole Woman's Health Alliance reapplied for the license Thursday, avoiding what it feared would be a lengthy legal battle.

A South Bend abortion clinic is still barred from opening after an Indiana State Department of Health panel reversed an administrative judge's earlier ruling.

Whole Woman's Health Alliance applied more than a year ago to open an abortion clinic in South Bend.

The agency announced Tuesday an appeals panel consisting of two members of its executive board and an administrative law judge will hear the matter at an undetermined date.

An Indianapolis judge ruled Whole Woman's Health Alliance had provided all the necessary information, and that the health department hadn't provided a legitimate reason for the denial.

Whole Woman's Health Alliance, a nonprofit run by a board of directors, wants to open an abortion clinic in South Bend.

The judge will determine whether to grant Whole Woman's Health Alliance's appeal after the Indiana State Department of Health denied the group's application for an abortion clinic license in January.

Whole Woman's Health Alliance, a non-profit entity, applied in August to open an abortion clinic offering medication abortions, also known as the abortion pill.