Mon Aug 8, 2022 – 5:26 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Indiana enacted a new law Friday that ostensibly bans most abortions, after amendments were adopted to address pro-life concerns over the scope and language of its exceptions.
Prior to being amended, SB1 forbade all abortions except those sought due to rape, incest, or “permanent substantial impairment” to the mother’s health, and permitted abortions if a preborn child “suffers from an irremediable medical condition that is incompatible with sustained life outside the womb, regardless of when the child is born.
Indiana Right to Life and the Thomas More Society came out against the bill, warning that it did not merely allow abortions for “irremediable medical condition” but excluded them from the definition of “abortion” under state law, making them no longer subject to limits such as taxpayer funding, conscience rights, and disability-based abortions.
Subsequent amendments “tightened language for the life of the mother exception, limited abortions to 10 weeks in circumstances of rape or incest, and limited abortions for lethal fetal anomalies to 20 weeks,” according to Indiana Right to Life, and the bill cleared the state House 62-38 and the state Senate 28-19, and received Republican
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