Third District Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Banks does want stronger anti-abortion laws but said he doesn’t believe measures banning travel from Indiana to abortion access states like Illinois is the answer.
A federal judge ruled Friday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the First Amendment and the Florida Constitution by removing an elected state prosecutor but that the federal courts lack the power to reinstate him.
Eight months, 126 formal interviews and a 23-page report later, the Supreme Court said it has failed to discover who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights.
Little more than six months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Indiana’s high court heard arguments Thursday in the case challenging the near-total abortion ban enacted in the state after the federal justices ended the federal right to an abortion.
The Hoosier State’s new abortion law, passed weeks after Roe v. Wade was struck down last summer, will go before the Indiana Supreme Court Thursday, becoming one of the first near-total abortion bans in the country to face scrutiny from a state’s justices.
Indiana lawmakers return Monday to the Statehouse for the start of this year’s legislative session with a large budget surplus and a long list of big-ticket spending wishes to sort through.
Indiana’s top Republican lawmakers say they’re holding off on new abortion legislation in the 2023 legislative session — at least for now. But the future is less clear on tangential issues of mail-order abortion pills and contraception.
Indiana’s medical licensing board next month will hear a case regarding the Indianapolis doctor who this past summer provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio.
The Dobbs v. Jackson ruling left abortion rights up to the states. As a result, lower courts in at least five states, including Indiana, have issued rulings in abortion-related religious freedom lawsuits.
While preparing to defend the state’s abortion ban against a constitutional challenge now at the Indiana Supreme Court, Indiana is asking the justices to review a second challenge that claims the ban violates the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
A second legal challenge that has blocked Indiana’s abortion ban from being enforced could also be headed to the state Supreme Court.
The Indiana abortion doctor who sued Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita to stop his investigation into consumer complaints filed against her is voluntary dismissing her complaint.
Less than half of Hoosiers who were interviewed for a new statewide survey said they approve of the job Gov. Eric Holcomb is doing in state office, according to a new report released Monday.
The Biden administration is still searching for ways to safeguard abortion access for millions of women, even as it bumps up against a complex web of strict new state laws enacted in the months after the SCOTUS stripped the constitutional right.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita can continue his investigation into Indianapolis abortion doctor Caitlin Bernard, including accessing her patients’ medical records, a judge has ruled.
The Marion Superior Court has become the second trial court to block Indiana’s near-total ban on abortion, this time on the grounds that the law violates the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The Indiana abortion doctor who is suing Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is now facing a complaint against her medical license filed by Rokita’s office.
In an outright reversal, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Indiana’s law requiring fetal remains to be buried or cremated and chastised the Indiana Southern District Court for blocking the statute in the first place.
Tension in the air was palpable as Dr. Caitlin Bernard took the stand Monday to be questioned in an ongoing debate about her role in providing an abortion to a 10-year-old Ohio girl.
Attorneys for Indianapolis OB-GYN Dr. Caitlin Bernard and from the Indiana Attorney General’s Office faced off Friday morning during an emergency hearing after the abortion provider filed suit seeking to stop the attorney general from attempting to access her patient’s medical records.