Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill by mail for now
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.
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Marion County judge blocks state’s near-total abortion ban in religious freedom case
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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Trump rescinded guidance on emergency abortions. Now what?
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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Rokita facing lawyer discipline charges: Discipline complaint marks 2nd time in 4 years Indiana AG faces formal ethics complaint
For the second time in four years, the Indiana attorney general is facing lawyer discipline charges.
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‘The battle isn’t over’: Near-total abortion ban in effect, but litigation continues
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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Supreme Court sides with anti-abortion center raising First Amendment fears about state probe
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.
Indiana Supreme Court to hear religious freedom case involving state’s near-total abortion ban
The state’s high court granted the transfer of the case from Marion Superior Court, bypassing the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Satanic Temple’s effort to stop Indiana’s anti-abortion law fails in the 7th Circuit
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 stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban
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.
Appeals court upholds order blocking Indiana’s release of abortion records
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.
Three years after injunction, religious freedom lawsuit against Indiana abortion ban nears decision
A Marion Superior Court judge heard final arguments Tuesday over whether the abortion law violates the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Abortion opponents coming before the Supreme Court in challenge to state investigation
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.
Planned Parenthood role as Indiana Medicaid provider at risk as AG strikes at decade-old injunction
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.
IN Court of Appeals denies Planned Parenthood’s challenge to state’s abortion law
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 VA wants to end coverage of abortion for US military veterans
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.
Judge blocks Trump administration’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood
A federal judge on Monday ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding.
Abortions kept rising in 2024 because of telehealth prescriptions, report finds
Pills are used in the majority of abortions and are also prescribed in person.
First full year under Indiana’s ban reveals 146 abortions occurred in 2024
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.
Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication
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.
Lawsuits challenge state’s release of abortion documents
A legal battle rages on over reports that doctors must file on the few abortions now performed in Indiana each year.
Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
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.
Doctors win injunction protecting terminated pregnancy reports
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.
Judge extends order prohibiting state from disclosing terminated pregnancy reports
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.
Marion County judge temporarily blocks release of abortion records
The judge concluded that the terminated pregnancy reports are medical records not subject to public record laws.