{"id":272219,"date":"2022-07-13T08:39:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T13:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=272219"},"modified":"2022-07-12T18:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:16:18","slug":"federal-court-indiana-prohibiting-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/federal-court-indiana-prohibiting-de\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal court allows Indiana law prohibiting D&E abortions to take effect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A federal judge has allowed Indiana to enforce a state law that prohibits dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortions. The law was passed in 2019<\/a> but was challenged by the ACLU. Days before it was slated to take effect, U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker placed an injunction on the law that has prohibited the state from enforcing it for the past three years.<\/p>\n

Following the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that put the issue of abortion back to each state to decide, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita made a request to the court to lift the injunction. Barker decided to lift her injunction<\/a> in light of the SCOTUS decision.<\/p>\n

The D&E abortion is the most common type of second-trimester abortion. It is a brutal procedure in which the abortionist uses scissors or forceps to tear the baby apart limb by limb. This procedure is especially heinous given that research shows preborn children may feel pain in the womb as early as eight weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n