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Aug 10, 2022 · How Every Indiana Legislator Voted on Banning Abortion. August 10, 2022 - 11:15am. The purpose of this scorecard is to inform our supporters and the public of where their legislators stand on protecting abortion access.
Aug 21, 2024 · As we approach the 2024 elections, people across Indiana are mobilizing to protect birth control, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and to restore safe, legal abortion: 94% of Hoosiers oppose restricting access to birth control, including intrauterine devices (IUDs). 92% oppose criminalizing IVF.
- Restrictions
- State Protections
- Post-Roe Prohibitions
- Conclusion
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 597 U.S (June 24, 2022), rev’d Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 945 F.3d 265, 274 (5th Cir. 2019). Indiana enacted a new law prohibiting abortion with very limited exceptions.S.B. 1,...
Indiana law does not include express statutory protections for abortion. In June 2023, the Indiana Supreme Court held that the constitution protects abortion in situations when there is risk to a pregnant person’s life or a “serious health risk.”Members of the Med. Licensing Bd. of Ind. v. Planned Parenthood N.W. Haw., Alaska, Ind., Ky., No. 22S-PL...
In 2022, Indiana enacted a total ban on abortion.S.B. 1, 122nd Leg., 1st Spec. Sess. (Ind. 2022). The state expressly repealed two pre-Roe bans in 1977.Id. §§ 35-1-58-1, 35-1-58-2 repealed by 1977 Ind. Acts 1524; see also Clinic for Women, Inc. v. Brizzi, 837 N.E.2d 973, 989 n.2 (Ind. 2005) (Dickson, J., concurring) (providing history of … Continue...
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe, Indiana has enacted a new total ban on abortion, which took effect on August 1, 2023 after the state supreme court vacated the injunction blocking the law.
Oct 9, 2024 · Indiana and West Virginia became the first states to pass new laws fully banning abortion. Other states — including Georgia, historically a hub of abortion access in the South — have enacted six-week bans, essentially allowing abortion only up to two weeks after a missed period.
Oct 23, 2024 · Our interactive map groups states into one of seven categories based on abortion policies they have in effect. Select any state for details about abortion policies, characteristics of state residents and key abortion statistics, or select a policy to see which states have bans, restrictions or protections in place.
Using publicly available data, we created a timeline of abortion-related laws in Indiana, calculated abortion rates by geography, and described changes in abortion occurrence coincident with changes in abortion-related laws between 2010 and 2019.
Aug 6, 2022 · Indiana became the first state in the U.S. to pass a new abortion law after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Eli Lilly, which employs thousands in Indiana, said it would look elsewhere to...
