{"id":294181,"date":"2023-07-05T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294181"},"modified":"2023-07-04T23:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T04:46:23","slug":"indiana-supreme-court-injunction-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/indiana-supreme-court-injunction-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Supreme Court removes injunction on state’s pro-life law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Friday that a state law protecting most preborn children from abortion can stand, vacating an earlier injunction on the law. However, the plaintiffs in a separate legal case who are challenging the state’s abortion law as a threat to their religious freedom<\/a> are exempt from the current ruling.<\/p>\n

The law, SB 1, protects most preborn children in the state from abortion, with exemptions for cases of rape and incest, to protect the life or health of the mother (though directly and intentionally killing a preborn child is not medically necessary<\/a>), or if the preborn child is diagnosed with a condition that doctors predict to be fatal.<\/p>\n

In September 2022, a county judge put an injunction on the law after a challenge from the abortion industry. At that time, Special Judge Kelsey B. Hanlon found<\/a> that there was a “reasonable likelihood” that the law violated the state constitution’s privacy protections. The Supreme Court’s ruling reverses Hanlon’s injunction, confirming that the pro-life law is constitutional.<\/p>\n

In his verdict, Justice Derek R. Molter wrote that the state’s constitution “protects a woman\u2019s right to an abortion that is necessary to protect her life or to protect her from a serious health risk, but the General Assembly otherwise retains broad legislative discretion for determining whether and the extent to which to prohibit abortions.”<\/p>\n

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Following the Indiana Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in support of life today, my office released the following statement: pic.twitter.com\/CQdGlU1FhO<\/a><\/p>\n

— AG Todd Rokita (@AGToddRokita) June 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n