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Pro-life Battle Continues
Rebecca Terrell’s article “Will Pro-life Laws Really Kill Women?” in the September 26 issue was well-written and most interesting. The fact that she included excerpts from an interview with Dr. Christina Francis, who is CEO-elect of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, was of particular interest to this Hoosier. Miss Terrell writes, “Francis practices in Indiana, where state law now protects unborn life from conception through birth.”
While the Indiana Senate passed a bill in July protecting unborn life at conception (with inexcusable exceptions for rape, incest, and fetal abnormality), the House added an amendment with a loophole protecting from legal liability hospital doctors who perform abortions “upon request of a pregnant woman.” The law went into effect on September 15. For details, I refer the reader to Veronika Kyrylenko’s online article at TheNewAmerican.com: “Indiana’s New Abortion Law: Pro-life on Surface Only.”
That loophole is a grave failing. However, the strength of the law is that it cancels state licenses for abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood, where most abortions are committed. That is the confirmed reason that Owen County Judge Kelsey Hanlon issued a September 22 injunction against the new law, after Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers challenged it in court. James Murphy relates this development in his recent TNA online article, “Indiana Judge Blocks New Abortion Restrictions.” For now, the Hoosier state is back to business as usual, with Roe-era laws already on the books that only protect unborn life after “viability.”
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