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Indiana state Senator Jim Banks has introduced<\/a> SB 144, which would ban abortions in the state upon detection of a fetal heartbeat, or as early as six weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis important legislation would protect unborn Hoosiers\u2019 right to life and also includes important women\u2019s health protections,\u201d said Banks, who has also just filed<\/a> to run for Congress. \u201cIt is my hope that this bill would help continue the decline in abortions performed in Indiana.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The bill makes it a felony for an abortionist to perform an abortion without checking for a heartbeat or finding a heartbeat yet aborting anyway. It contains an exception for threats to a woman’s life or health.<\/p>\n

Heartbeat-based abortion bans apply significantly earlier than the viability cutoff permitted by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but North Dakota has recently petitioned<\/a> the court to reconsider, arguing that its current abortion precedent “fails to account for advancements in medical science establishing that an unborn child is viable from conception.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other pro-life legislation recently introduced in Indiana includes SB 77, a Banks-introduced bill which would ban<\/a> the use of tissue from aborted babies in research, and legislation from state Senator Jim Tomes to increase legal penalties for buying or selling aborted baby parts.<\/p>\n

“I can tell you now in our society today if someone were to do that to a puppy or a cat, the outrage would be enormous if someone were doing that,\u201d Tomes said of dismembering preborn children to obtain their parts. \u201cThat we even have reports and stories of this taking place now with little babies is just beyond the human mind to fully understand what a dastardly deed that is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indiana state Senator Jim Banks has introduced SB 144, which would ban abortions in the state upon detection of a fetal heartbeat, or as early as six weeks. \u201cThis important legislation would protect unborn Hoosiers\u2019 right to life and also includes important women\u2019s health protections,\u201d said Banks, who has also just filed to run for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":58029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[1481,5488,679,7034,7033,7035,3913],"yoast_head":"\nIndiana introduces heartbeat abortion ban, fetal tissue bills - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The heartbeat bill makes it a felony for an abortionist to perform an abortion without checking for a heartbeat or finding a heartbeat yet aborting anyway.\" \/>\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-introduces-heartbeat-abortion-ban-fetal-tissue-bills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indiana introduces heartbeat abortion ban, fetal tissue bills - 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