Some say Trump’s decision is detrimental to the ability of health care providers to determine when they can perform these abortions lawfully.
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For the second time in four years, the Indiana attorney general is facing lawyer discipline charges.
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It’s been a year of legal battles for both sides of the abortion issue in Indiana, with a struggle in the courts still playing out as the state’s near-total ban takes effect for the second time.
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To wrap up 2022, here’s a look back at the biggest stories of the year, as voted on by IL staff.
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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office wants to vacate a 12-year-old injunction on an abortion provider state funding ban — risking Planned Parenthood’s participation in Indiana’s Medicaid program.
The Indiana Court of Appeals denied Planned Parenthood’s challenge to the state’s near-total abortion ban on Monday, upholding a September 2024 decision by the Monroe Circuit Court.
The Department of Veterans Affairs posted the proposed rule change this week and opened a public comment period on it that runs through Sept. 3.
A federal judge on Monday ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding.
Pills are used in the majority of abortions and are also prescribed in person.
Ninety-three of the abortions were performed due to lethal fetal anomaly; 40 were due to serious health risk or life of the mother and nine were due to rape or incest.
The Trump administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone.
A legal battle rages on over reports that doctors must file on the few abortions now performed in Indiana each year.
There are just two Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, but every year they take hundreds of low-income patients who need things like contraception, cancer screenings and pregnancy testing.
The move comes after a short-term temporary restraining order expired. The lawsuit over the records will continue, but, in the meantime, the reports are protected as medical records.
Two doctors testified in court Wednesday that the reports contain too much personal information and could threaten the privacy and safety of both patients and the physicians performing the abortions.
The judge concluded that the terminated pregnancy reports are medical records not subject to public record laws.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard and another board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist are suing the Indiana State Health Commissioner and the nonprofit Voices for Life, Inc., arguing that terminated pregnancy reports should not be disclosed under Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act.
The Indiana Department of Health will release the individual reports filed on every abortion but with redactions to protect patient identity.
The people pardoned were involved in the October 2020 invasion and blockade of a Washington clinic.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Wednesday waded into a legal fight over the release of abortion records while signing a health-focused tranche of executive orders.
Idaho, Kansas and Missouri requested late last year to pursue the case in federal court in Amarillo, Texas, after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling finding that abortion opponents who first filed the case lacked the legal right to sue.
The lawsuit argues a state law requiring physicians performing abortions to report certain information to the state is in direct conflict with new federal health privacy requirements.
Artificial intelligence. Abortion. Guns. Marijuana. Minimum wages. Name a hot topic, and chances are good there’s a new law about it taking effect in 2025 in one state or another.
The trial court’s preliminary injunction against the state’s abortion law remains in effect for a small group of women after the Indiana Supreme Court for now refused to hear state officials’ appeal.