{"id":237402,"date":"2021-01-05T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=237402"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:08:34","slug":"indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana’s 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

An Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women who plan to undergo an abortion went into effect<\/a> on New Year’s Day four years after it was initially signed into law. The law requires<\/a> women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound 18 hours before the abortion is carried out, however she can decline in writing to view the ultrasound image or hear the heartbeat. The law allows her 18 hours to reconsider this life-altering decision.<\/p>\n

Ultrasounds are often used during abortions to date the pregnancy in order for the abortionist to determine which procedure to use to kill the preborn child and how much to charge the mother. Ultrasounds are a window into the womb and a woman deserves the opportunity to see her child and hear her child’s heartbeat before making her final decision on abortion.<\/p>\n

Signed into law in 2016 by then-Governor Mike Pence, Planned Parenthood sued to stop the Indiana law from taking effect, claiming that it would place an undue burden on women. In 2017, U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt issued a preliminary injunction to block the law. An appeals court upheld that decision. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill filed an appeal and on July 2, the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back<\/em> to the federal appeals court to be re-heard.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Abortion staff lied about fetal development, refused to show woman her baby\u2019s ultrasound<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As Live Action News reported<\/a> at the time, “The new Supreme Court ruling told the 7th Court of Appeals to reconsider both [of Indiana’s abortion] laws, and to keep in mind that recent ruling in Louisiana, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the state’s admitting privileges law is unconstitutional.” This meant the state of Indiana would have been able to defend the law in court again. Hill noted that “Planned Parenthood saw the likelihood that this very reasonable law ultimately would be upheld.”<\/p>\n

Then in August, Planned Parenthood and the state of Indiana came to an agreement that the preliminary injunction would be vacated on January 1. The abortion corporation dropped the lawsuit, stating that in the years since the law had been signed, certain “events” had taken place, including the addition of an ultrasound machine at the Planned Parenthood in Fort Wayne. Apparently the facility did not have a functioning ultrasound machine until that time \u2014 a stunning piece of information.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor women considering abortions, ultrasounds are an important part of the informed-consent counseling,\u201d Hill said. \u201cAnyone interested in protecting women\u2019s health, including their mental health, should support giving them as much information as possible to aid their decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women who undergo abortions are at an increased risk<\/a> of depression, alcohol use, drug use, and suicidal thoughts. Ensuring women are fully informed about abortion before undergoing one is essential. Ultrasound laws allow women the opportunity to be fully informed about the fact that abortion takes a human life, to step away from any pressure<\/a> they may be feeling to abort, to reconsider their decision, to further research other options, and to seek out assistance.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses fight pro-life laws because those laws help to reduce the number of abortions \u2014 directly affecting the financial bottom line of the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women who plan to undergo an abortion went into effect on New Year’s Day four years after it was initially signed into law. The law requires women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound 18 hours before the abortion is carried out, however she can decline in writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nIndiana's 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women who plan to undergo an abortion went into effect on New Year's Day four years after it was signed into law.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indiana's 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women who plan to undergo an abortion went into effect on New Year's Day four years after it was signed into law.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-05T17:45:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-05T01:08:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dreamstime_xs_19503756.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"320\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\"},\"headline\":\"Indiana’s 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-05T17:45:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-01-05T01:08:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/\"},\"wordCount\":554,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Newsbreak\",\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/\",\"name\":\"Indiana's 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-05T17:45:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-01-05T01:08:34+00:00\",\"description\":\"An Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women who plan to undergo an abortion went into effect on New Year's Day four years after it was signed into law.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Indiana’s 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\",\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nancy Flanders\"},\"description\":\"Nancy Flanders is Associate Editor for Live Action News. She has 25 years of experience writing and editing. For more than a decade, she has focused her work on pro-life issues through human interest stories and political issues regarding abortion and physician-assisted death as well as research articles and op-eds dismantling the lies of the pro-abortion, pro-death agenda. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, Pregnancy Help News, and a variety of other publications.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/nancy\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Indiana's 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect","description":"An Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women who plan to undergo an abortion went into effect on New Year's Day four years after it was signed into law.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Indiana's 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect","og_description":"An Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women who plan to undergo an abortion went into effect on New Year's Day four years after it was signed into law.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2021-01-05T17:45:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-01-05T01:08:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":"480","height":"320","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dreamstime_xs_19503756.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nancy Flanders","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nancy Flanders","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/"},"author":{"name":"Nancy Flanders","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef"},"headline":"Indiana’s 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect","datePublished":"2021-01-05T17:45:14+00:00","dateModified":"2021-01-05T01:08:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/"},"wordCount":554,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Newsbreak","Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/","name":"Indiana's 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-01-05T17:45:14+00:00","dateModified":"2021-01-05T01:08:34+00:00","description":"An Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women who plan to undergo an abortion went into effect on New Year's Day four years after it was signed into law.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-18-hour-ultrasound-law-effect\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Indiana’s 18-hour abortion ultrasound law is back in effect"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef","name":"Nancy Flanders","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nancy Flanders"},"description":"Nancy Flanders is Associate Editor for Live Action News. She has 25 years of experience writing and editing. For more than a decade, she has focused her work on pro-life issues through human interest stories and political issues regarding abortion and physician-assisted death as well as research articles and op-eds dismantling the lies of the pro-abortion, pro-death agenda. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, Pregnancy Help News, and a variety of other publications.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/nancy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237411,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237402\/revisions\/237411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}