State data show 92 pregnant and postpartum women died in Indiana during 2020, a 46% increase from the state s 63 maternal deaths in 2019, and the 60 deaths tallied for
Seventeen years ago the Indiana Supreme Court dodged the question of whether the Indiana Constitution contains a right to privacy, and correspondingly, a right to abortion.
The lawsuit claims Indiana s new abortion restrictions unlawfully deny temple members access to abortion and the Satanic Abortion Ritual by criminalizing the procedure.
A Republican Owen County judge ruled Thursday the state s near-total abortion ban, which took effect last Thursday, likely violates liberties protected by the Indiana Constitution.
Judge Kelsey Hanlon of the Owen Circuit Court, a Republican sitting as a special judge in Monroe County, listened to some 75 minutes of oral argument on the issue Monday.