The ruling comes more than three years after the underlying lawsuit was filed, in which plaintiffs argued the state’s abortion ban constituted a “substantial burden” to their religious beliefs under the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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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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Attorneys general in three Republican states contend that laws in California, Massachusetts and New York undermine their abortion bans and their states’ sovereignty.
Justice Elena Kagan denied the request from McKenna West, who sought conservatorship over a baby boy she gave birth to in Dallas. The order did not detail legal reasoning.
The family of a 37-year-old pregnant San Antonio woman who died of preeclampsia is claiming in a new lawsuit that the Texas’ abortion ban led to her death.
McKenna West wants final custody or conservatorship because she believes the couple will not provide life-saving care, citing their request for an abortion at 23 weeks.
Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act is used to grant exemptions for vaccines and medical care. Attorneys argued Thursday before the Indiana Supreme Court on whether it could allow for an exception to Indiana’s near-total abortion ban.
Abortion opponents are trying to clamp down on keeping providers in states where abortion is legal from sending drugs for medication abortions into states where it is not.
Indiana’s abortion ban, a land battle involving a school district and a recount of absentee ballots from a primary election all will be on the agenda when the state Supreme Court hears oral arguments next Thursday.
The federal appeals court concluded that the state’s “aid-or-assist” law imposes a content-based restriction on protected speech.
The five justices let stand a state appeals court decision that the records — known as terminated pregnancy reports — should be protected as confidential medical records.
The court’s action extends a week-long pause on the appellate court decision that had been put in place by Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Monday’s order allows mifepristone access through telehealth and mail until May 11 while the justices confer on whether to further pause the appellate court order.
The conservative-majority court has given abortion opponents high-profile wins in recent years, most notably the watershed case that overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022.
The state’s high court granted the transfer of the case from Marion Superior Court, bypassing the Indiana Court of Appeals.
The federal appeals court dismissed the Satanic Temple’s lawsuit against the state’s ban on telehealth abortion medication, upholding a lower court’s ruling that the religious institution lacked standing.
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that two laws barring the procedure, including the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills, violate the state constitution.
The ruling upholds a preliminary injunction won by OB-GYNs Caitlin Bernard and Caroline Rouse, who sued after the state agreed to release unredacted terminated pregnancy reports — or TPRs — to an anti-abortion organization.
A Marion Superior Court judge heard final arguments Tuesday over whether the abortion law violates the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The facilities often known as “crisis pregnancy centers” have been on the rise in the U.S., especially since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned abortion as a nationwide right in 2022.
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.