{"id":184862,"date":"2018-07-04T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=184862"},"modified":"2018-07-04T14:31:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T19:31:19","slug":"unsafe-indiana-judge-abortion-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/unsafe-indiana-judge-abortion-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsafe: Judge halts Indiana law requiring reporting of abortion complications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A federal judge has imposed a preliminary injunction blocking an Indiana law requiring abortion complications to be reported to the state. Indiana Right to Life noted<\/a> on June 29, 2018:<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed suit in April to block two portions of the law: first, that physicians, hospitals and abortion facilities report when a woman is injured by an abortion; second, that abortion operators must disclose greater amounts of information when attempting to open a new abortion facility in Indiana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Senate Enrolled Act (SEA) 340<\/a> was signed into law in March by\u00a0Gov. Eric Holcomb and was expected to take effect this month. Also according to Indiana Right to Life<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Complications required to be reported include: uterine perforation, cervical perforation, infection, hemorrhaging, respiratory arrest, shock, or incidents in which parts of an aborted baby are left within the woman. The law also enhances reporting requirements when a woman gets an abortion by tracking whether she was seeking the abortion as a result of abuse, coercion, harassment or trafficking….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ACLU filed its\u00a0lawsuit<\/a> in April on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK), calling the requirement “vague” and claiming it “offends due process.”<\/p>\n

READ: New Missouri Dept. of Health director: Abortion complications have gone unreported for years<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Fichter, President and CEO of Indiana Right to Life, correctly\u00a0noted<\/a> that SEA 340 brought needed transparency to the abortion industry: “Planned Parenthood likes to claim that abortions never harm women. If that was the case, why do they oppose this common sense law?… [D]oes Planned Parenthood have something to hide?”<\/p>\n

The law\u00a0defined<\/a>\u00a0“abortion\u00a0complication” as “any adverse physical or psychological condition arising from the induction or performance of an abortion.”\u00a0The term includes the following known complications:<\/p>\n

(1) Uterine perforation.
\n(2) Cervical perforation.
\n(3) Infection.
\n(4) Hemorrhaging.
\n(5) Blood clots.
\n(6) Failure to terminate the pregnancy.
\n(7) Incomplete abortion (retained tissue).
\n(8) Pelvic inflammatory disease.
\n(9) Missed ectopic pregnancy.
\n(10) Cardiac arrest.
\n(11) Respiratory arrest.
\n(12) Renal failure.
\n(13) Metabolic disorder.
\n(14) Shock.
\n(15) Embolism.
\n(16) Coma.
\n(17) Placenta previa in subsequent pregnancies.
\n(18) Pre-term delivery in subsequent pregnancies.
\n(19) Free fluid in the abdomen.
\n(20) Hemolytic reaction due to the administration of ABO-incompatible blood or blood products.
\n(21) Hypoglycemia occurring while the patient is being treated at the abortion facility.
\n(22) Physical injury associated with treatment performed at the abortion facility.
\n(23) Adverse reaction to anesthesia or other drugs.
\n(24) Psychological or emotional complications, including depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, and sleeping disorders.
\n(25) Death.
\n(26) Any other adverse event as defined by criteria provided in the Food and Drug Administration Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The state maintained<\/a> that “while there are some studies on abortion complications, there is no comprehensive data on the frequency and severity of abortion complications…. To help remedy the shortage of data regarding abortion complications, and ultimately, to better inform a woman\u2019s choice whether to have an abortion, the Indiana General Assembly enacted Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 340.”<\/p>\n

As Live Action News has previously<\/a> reported, a look at abortion consent forms reveal that there are, in fact, serious complications associated with abortion\u2014 even early ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n