The U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of Indiana ruled Wednesday that a 2017 state law prohibiting healthcare providers from providing certain information about abortion to minors violates the First Amendment.
The ACLU of Indiana filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday on behalf of three individuals who received no-trespass orders after being arrested for protesting the war in Gaza on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington.
A three-day bench trial scheduled for later this month will put Hoosier abortion providers and the state attorney general’s office back in court as the battle over Indiana’s near-total abortion ban continues. Already in contention, however, is whether certain testimony and internal hospital documents entered as exhibits in the case should become public.