With Indiana’s new abortion ban in effect starting today, the state’s Democratic senators, representatives and candidates spent the day decrying the law passed by the Legislature earlier this summer while Republicans remained mostly quiet.
Don Bolduc didn’t have much time to celebrate winning the Republican nomination for Senate in New Hampshire on Wednesday before he and other swing-state GOP candidates were on the defensive.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban Tuesday, sending shockwaves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on a fraught issue weeks before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
Less than a month after Indiana’s near-total abortion ban was signed into law, the battle for reproductive rights has moved to the state courts with two lawsuits challenging the new statute on constitutional and religious freedom grounds.
In the lawsuit attempting to block Indiana’s new abortion ban, a separate dispute is erupting between the Indiana Attorney General and the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office over the authority to hire outside counsel.
An Indiana judge won’t hear arguments until next week on a lawsuit seeking to block the state’s abortion ban, leaving that new law set to take effect on Thursday.
During a recent speech in Denver, Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.
Starting Sept. 15, abortion clinics in Indiana will be prohibited from providing any abortion care, leaving such services solely to hospitals or outpatient surgical centers owned by hospitals.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a second lawsuit today against the state’s new abortion law, claiming Senate Enrolled Act 1 violates Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Indiana University Health has set up a “rapid-response team” to help its doctors seeking guidance on whether they can legally perform an abortion to protect the health of the mother and other situations.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against an Indiana law requiring doctors to report “abortion complications” to the state, continuing a trend that began when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion.
Declaring Indiana’s new abortion ban violates the state constitution’s right to privacy, the ACLU of Indiana along with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and other reproductive rights organizations have filed a lawsuit to block the new law from taking effect Sept. 15.
With new state laws and court challenges popping up on what seems like a daily basis, some women are traveling state lines to get abortions.
Indiana taxpayers were out close to a quarter-million dollars for a special legislative session that saw the passage of a near-total ban all abortions in the state, as well as a deal providing wraparound social services and inflation relief.
A federal judge in Idaho has barred the state from enforcing a strict abortion ban in medical emergencies over concerns that it violates a federal law on emergency care.
A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the federal government from enforcing a legal interpretation that would require hospitals in the state to provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday defended his signing of a near-total abortion ban this month and brushed off fears of business and talent attraction consequences in the wake of statements from major homegrown employers.
In the weeks leading up to the Indiana General Assembly’s special legislative session — as well as during the time lawmakers were in their Statehouse chambers drafting a new bill — Indiana’s abortion laws changed. Not in the sense of new legislation, but in the reality that old laws on the books could be enforced after years-old injunctions blocking them in federal courts were lifted.
A former congresswoman and retired federal judge are publicly criticizing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, describing his recent actions as smacking of McCarthyism and calling on law enforcement officials to “reject his example.”
The future of litigation waging a “global assault” on Indiana’s abortion regulation scheme is on hold as lawyers for both the state and pro-abortion rights organizations consider how to respond to Indiana’s new near-total abortion ban.