Wed Jul 5, 2023 – 3:08 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that it is constitutional for the state to enforce a ban on most abortions with exceptions that caused consternation among pro-lifers on the way to its passage.
Enacted last August, the law forbids all abortions except those sought due to rape or incest during the first ten weeks or “substantial and irreversible physical impairment” of the mother’s health and permits abortions if a preborn child “suffers from an irremediable medical condition that is incompatible with sustained life outside the womb” up to 20 weeks.
The abortion industry sued, despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade two months earlier, expressly allowing states to set their own abortion laws. Owen County Judge Kelsey Hanlon issued a preliminary injunction that September, claiming to see a “reasonable likelihood that this significant restriction of personal autonomy offends the liberty guarantees of the Indiana Constitution.”
But the state’s highest court ruled otherwise.
The Indiana Constitution “protects a woman’s right to an abortion” only when “necessary to protect her life or to protect her from a serious health risk,” Justice Derek
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