An Indiana judge has rejected a request by the nation’s biggest abortion business to block Indiana’s abortion ban that has been saving thousands of babies from abortions.
Judge Kelsey Hanlon has denied Planned Parenthood’s request for a permanent injunction against Indiana’s pro-life law, rejecting Planned Parenthood’s argument that the exceptions are too narrow and the hospital requirement is too restrictive.
The opinion states: “Plaintiffs have not shown an instance where an abortion is necessary to treat a serious health risk but would also fall outside of the Health and Life Exception. Additionally, Plaintiffs have not demonstrated that the Hospital Requirement is materially burdensome to constitutionally protected abortion access, nor that it fails rational basis review as to statutorily authorized (but not constitutionally protected) abortions.”
Hanlon also said that medical professionals have proven themselves to be able to understand and apply the law’s health and life exception requirements, stressing that hospitals have developed guidance, procedures and appropriate consultations to ensure that the law is being followed.
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Indiana Right to Life President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Fichter issued the following statement today about the Monroe County Circuit Court’s ruling against Planned Parenthood in its attempt to block Indiana’s abortion law.
“Today’s ruling strongly affirms Indiana’s right to limit abortions. The limits in Indiana law have been highly effective in ending the killing of over 9,000 babies per year and stopped the abortion profiteers from making millions at the expense of women and their babies. The Indiana Supreme Court has already ruled Indiana’s law is constitutional and the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in its 2022 Dobbs ruling the right for states to determine abortion law. As abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood continue to seek ways to undermine Indiana law, we will remain focused on helping Indiana become a model state in showing compassion for pregnant mothers and providing protection for unborn babies.”
Planned Parenthood had attempted to expand medical exceptions under Indiana’s abortion ban and block the requirement that abortions could only be done in hospitals.
State figures from multiple states with abortion bans show the bans are working as intended – protecting babies from abortions and allowing women to receive appropriate medical care instead.
Indiana’s official abortion report for the second quarter of 2024, released on August 29, reveals 27 reported abortions for April, May and June – the lowest quarterly level in Indiana since before Roe vs. Wade in 1973.
“The numbers represent a 98.6 percent drop in abortions compared to quarter two of last year, when Indiana’s abortion law was still blocked by the courts and 1,938 abortions were reported,” Indiana Right to Life tells LifeNews.com. “The drop from 2023 to 2024 represents 1,911 fewer babies aborted in Indiana in quarter two of 2024 versus quarter two of 2023.”
The information in the new state health department report shows the following information:
- The majority of abortions were chemically induced (59%).
- Indiana’s abortion rate (abortions per number of females 15-44) in Q2 2024 was .02 compared to 1.17 in Q2 2023.
- The majority of abortions were done on women ages 25-34 (41%).
- The large majority of abortions were done on women with some college credit, associate, or bachelor’s degree (67% percent).
- Nearly two-thirds of women suffering abortion complications (63%) were reported as Black of African American.
The new data follows the release of similar abortion information from Texas.
The latest monthly report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on induced terminations of pregnancies (ITOP) released today shows that claims about medically necessary abortions in Texas abortion law by Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign are completely false.
Harris and her proxies claim that doctors cannot or are not willing to perform abortions in cases when the pregnancy endangers a woman’s life in Texas and other states with pro-life laws.
For example, when the Texas Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Texas’ pro-life laws in Zurawski v. Texas, Harris said, “This Texas Supreme Court ruling means women will continue to be denied access to necessary medical care, putting their health and lives at risk.” The latest data from the HHSC ITOP reports prove otherwise, showing that doctors in Texas performed 113 abortions to save pregnant women’s lives or health in the first 22 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
From July 2022 through April 2024, reported elective abortions in Texas quickly dropped from thousands per month to zero. However, during this period, doctors reported performing 113 medically necessary abortions, with 11 reported in April, all in hospitals. The monthly average of reported abortions for medical necessity (to protect the life or health of the woman) after Dobbs is 5.1. That number is comparable to the monthly average before Dobbs (January 2022 through May 2022), which is 2.3.
