Courts asked to reinstate blocked Indiana anti-abortion laws
Source: AP
By ARLEIGH RODGERS
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general is asking federal judges to lift orders blocking several state anti-abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to end constitutional protection for abortion.
An appeal of one of those blocked Indiana laws aimed at prohibiting abortions based on gender, race or disability was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. But that was before former President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett strengthened the court’s conservative majority.
Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office asked in court filings Monday that federal judges lift injunctions against that law, along with others banning a common second-trimester abortion procedure that the legislation calls a “dismemberment abortion” and requiring parents be notified if a court allows a girl younger than 18 to get abortion without parental consent.
The office argued that after last week’s Supreme Court ruling those challenging the laws “can claim no constitutional right to an abortion.”
Guests hold signs and listen to speakers during the Hoosier Conservative Voices rally supporting overturning Roe v. Wade Monday, June 27, 2022 near the Robert A. Grant Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse in downtown South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP)
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