Abortion-rights protestors march between the Indiana Statehouse and the Indiana State Library where Vice President Kamala Harris was meeting with Indiana legislators to discuss reproductive rights in Indianapolis on July 25, 2022. Local women organization leaders said while Indiana’s near-total abortion ban should be overturned they are pleased that a Planned Parenthood case to expand medical exemptions is being heard by a judge.
Deborah Chubb, executive director of the Indiana Women’s Action Movement, said while it is important for abortion providers to go to court to expand access for abortion care it is also frustrating that they must. The plaintiffs say the ban’s exceptions for protecting health are written so narrowly that in practice, many doctors won’t end a pregnancy even when a woman’s condition qualifies under the statute.Julie Storbeck, President of Northwest Indiana National Organization for Women and Indiana NOW, speaks during a protest at the Porter County Courthouse in Valparaiso, Indiana on Friday June 24, 2022. Earlier in the day the Supreme Court announced the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Storbeck said the cost for an abortion can be in the thousands at a hospital, while the cost for an abortion can cost a couple hundred dollars at a clinic. The challenge was filed in politically liberal Monroe County, home to Indiana University’s main campus, but Democratic judges handed off the case until it landed before Hanlon, a Republican elected in a neighboring, conservative Owen County.
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