“We won large from the Indiana Supreme Court! They upheld our injunction blocking Indiana’s termination ban,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, which operates respective termination clinics, including successful Indiana, said successful a tweet. “We tin enactment unfastened to supply termination attraction astatine slightest until the tribunal proceeding day of January 12, 2023!”
Indiana Right to Life CEO Mike Fichter said helium was “deeply disappointed” successful the Supreme Court’s decision.
“We estimation astatine slightest 3 1000 unborn babies, whose lives different mightiness person been saved, volition present needlessly dice from termination arsenic the instrumentality remains blocked,” Fichter said. “Thousands much volition dice arsenic we await a last ruling aft the January hearing. Although we are assured the instrumentality volition beryllium upheld, it volition beryllium acold excessively precocious for those whose lives volition beryllium mislaid arsenic this is argued successful the courts.”
According to the Indiana Department of Health, 8,414 abortions were performed successful the authorities successful 2021.
Indiana’s Republican-controlled legislature passed the caller termination law, which prohibits abortions but successful cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomaly oregon beingness endangerment, successful August. In debates implicit the bill, Republican lawmakers were divided implicit the contented of rape and incest exceptions, particularly aft the high-profile lawsuit of a 10-year-old Ohio miss who traveled to Indiana to person an termination aft she was raped.
With the latest ruling, termination remains ineligible up to 20 weeks aft fertilization, oregon 22 weeks of pregnancy, successful the state.
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