Suit was filed Tuesday in an Indiana state trial court challenging the state's recently-enacted law that bans abortions, with exceptions during early pregnancy to protect the life or to prevent serious health risk to the mother, in cases if lethal fetal anomaly, and in cases of rape or incest. Also all abortions are required to be performed in hospitals or hospital-owned outpatient surgical centers. The complaint (full text) in Planned Parenthood Great Northwest v. Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, (IN Cir. Ct., filed 8/3-/2022), contends in part:
S.B. 1’s total abortion ban strips away the fundamental rights of people seeking abortion care in Indiana in violation of the State Constitution. It will infringe on Hoosiers’ right to privacy, violate Indiana’s guarantee of equal privileges and immunities, and violate the Constitution’s due course of law clause through its unconstitutionally vague language.
Courthouse News Service reports on the lawsuit.
