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(Liberty Counsel<\/a>) Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments today regarding the challenge whether the state\u2019s pro-life law is in violation of Indiana\u2019s constitutional privacy protections. SB1 prohibits abortion at any stage of gestation except in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies or when the woman\u2019s life is at risk.<\/p>\n

Six weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Roe v. Wade<\/em> and Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em> abortion decisions, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed SB1 into law which became effective as of September 15, 2022. Owen County Circuit Judge Kelsey Hanlon blocked it just one week after the law had taken effect.<\/p>\n

In Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, et al., v. Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, Inc.et al.<\/em>, the ACLU sued on behalf of Planned Parenthood abortionists against the ban. It was revealed during today\u2019s argument there are no pregnant women suing against the law but rather only the abortionists.<\/p>\n

Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher presented a defense of the pro-life law for the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana. Senior Counsel Kenneth Falk of ACLU of Indiana argued for the Planned Parenthood plaintiffs that the state should only have a minimal infringement on a woman\u2019s right to an abortion.<\/p>\n

During today\u2019s argument, Justice Mark Massa asked Falk, \u201cI\u2019ve watched this controversy rage over constitutional interpretation, living constitutionalists and original public meaning. The trial court seemed to suggest the original public meaning was a farce and a fraud. Are we to hold the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Amendment\u2019s 4, 5, and 6 in less reverence because they come from an 18th century Virginian?\u201d<\/p>\n

Falk: \u201cWe take the core concepts and apply them to the modern context. I\u2019m not faulting the Founders.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Justice Massa: \u201cWould we not have to abandon original public meaning?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Falk: \u201cNot at all. What\u2019s the core value? Individual liberty. We have to apply that today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Justice Geoffrey Slaughter: \u201cWhat else does liberty mean? Physician assisted suicide, illegal drugs?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Falk: \u201cThere\u2019s limiting principles. Material burden. You\u2019re talking about a much more de minimus impact on a person\u2019s identity. Difficult to think about something more horrible than I\u2019m sorry you can\u2019t get an abortion when you have a horrible medical condition as a result of the pregnancy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Justice Slaughter: \u201cYou\u2019re agreeing it\u2019s a qualified right?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Falk: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Chief Justice Lorette Rush: \u201cWhat\u2019s the qualifier?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Falk: \u201cThe right is subject to legislation that may tailor the right as long as there remains a meaningful opportunity to obtain an abortion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Solicitor General Fisher stated:<\/p>\n

Opposing counsel argued that we need to take the concept of liberty and broaden it to include abortion as that is a modern manifestation of liberty. Abortion is not a modern manifestation of liberty. The Framers were aware of abortion and banned it. Indiana has always recognized the right of the baby. Abortion would end so many of these rights. <\/em><\/p>\n

There is a failure to recognize the unborn life and that is something the legislature has decided to respect. As to what the delegates thought about natural rights, it would be a misapprehension to read Section 1 as anything other than the rights of nature. Abortion is not one of those\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n

Faulk\u2019s argument is illogical that the legislature cannot redefine life with a statute because he argues using a previous definition of life in a statute.<\/em><\/p>\n

Liberty Counsel filed<\/a> an amicus brief in this case on behalf of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) and the Frederick Douglass Foundation that holds there is no right to abortion within the Indiana Constitution and defends the state\u2019s pro-life law that limits the killing of innocent unborn children.<\/p>\n

In the brief Liberty Counsel states, \u201cAbortion has a dark eugenic foundation that violates key protections of the Indiana Constitution, and the State of Indiana is right to take measures to limit it as much as possible. As members of or ministers to the African American and Hispanic communities, Amici have a strong interest in exposing the racist and eugenic history of the abortion movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liberty Counsel\u2019s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, \u201cEvery person, whether unborn or born, has a constitutional right to life. Planned Parenthood makes huge profit from ending the lives of innocent children and harming their mothers. Liberty Counsel is proud to stand with Indiana on behalf of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and the Frederick Douglass Foundation to finally end the dark, racist, eugenic history of abortion. We must make the womb a safe place once again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: This article was originally published at Liberty Counsel<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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(Liberty Counsel) Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments today regarding the challenge whether the state\u2019s pro-life law is in violation of Indiana\u2019s constitutional privacy protections. SB1 prohibits abortion at any stage of gestation except in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies or when the woman\u2019s life is at risk. 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