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In the late 1960s, Indiana saw various reforms to the anti-abortion laws of the 1950s, which previously made it “a crime at common law to wilfully solicit and/or procure a miscarriage” or to “wilfully terminate a pregnancy except by the operation of nature.” [11] By 1967, no state had fully legalized abortion, but many states had begun the process of reforming laws in favor of ...
A 2024 Montana Supreme Court decision established that minors do not need parental consent to have an abortion, overruling a state law. [130] The Montana Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that abortion was a right implicitly granted by the state constitution. [131] Legislative initiatives were passed in hopes of challenging that ruling.
, No. 18-483, 587 U.S. ___, 139 S.Ct. 1780 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the constitutionality of a 2016 anti-abortion law passed in the state of Indiana. Indiana's law sought to ban abortions performed solely on the basis of the fetus' gender, race, ethnicity, or disabilities.
The state of abortion rights has been upended by the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade . As of Nov. 6, more than a dozen states have banned abortions or no longer have ...
The ban will limit access to more than1.5 million people of reproductive age in Indiana, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana. Indiana was the first state to pass an abortion ...
The announcement came six months after Planned Parenthood ceased providing abortions in the state, after the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a 2022 law that said only hospitals could perform the ...
Mayes that instead of a 15-week ban on abortion passed by the state in 2022, that the state should follow a 1902 law, based on a pre-ratification 1864 law, that disallowed nearly any abortion except in the case of a medical emergency, [138] though the state government repealed the 1902 law in May 2024 to allow the 2022 law to take precedence. [139]
An Indiana doctor who is suing the state over its abortion ban on Wednesday told a state judge that the exception for medical emergencies was unclear, and could prevent medically necessary abortions.