Indiana Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Law

We are happy to announce that on Friday the Indiana Supreme Court vacated the preliminary injunction placed on Senate Bill 1.From their opinion, “The providers brought a ‘facial’ challenge to the entire law, so they had to show a reasonable likelihood of success in proving there are no circumstances in which any part of Senate Bill 1 could ever be enforced consistent with Article 1, Section 1. Because there are such circumstances, the providers cannot show a reasonable likelihood of success on their facial challenge. We therefore vacate the preliminary injunction.”Justice Molter of the Indiana Supreme Court said that Article 1 Section 1 “protects a woman’s right to an abortion that is necessary to protect her life or to protect her from serious health risk, but the General Assembly otherwise retains broad legislative discretion for determining whether and the extent to which to prohibit abortions.”The other lawsuit and injunction was a religious argument based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act claiming that abortion bans should not apply to those whose religious beliefs allow for abortion. Oral arguments for this second lawsuit are scheduled for September 12th at 1:30 pm.

We hope to see this second lawsuit overturned, and Senate Bill 1 fully reinstated.

At the same time, however, we hope to see a more just Indiana where human dignity is respected from conception to natural death.

Hoosier Republicans, who currently hold a supermajority in both the Indiana Senate and General Assembly, ought to take a look at the economics section of our platform and take note on some of the ways they can effectively be pro-life for the whole life.