Last week, the Indiana Supreme Court voted 4-1 to reject Planned Parenthood’s legal challenge to the state’s near-total abortion ban and leave in place a lower court ruling that found the ban constitutional. The Indiana Supreme Court denied the abortion giant’s request to take the case after the state appeals court upheld a 2024 circuit court decision that ruled the abortion ban’s very narrow exceptions do not prevent doctors from providing appropriate medical treatment for any specific medical conditions.
Indiana’s pro-life law bans most abortions, with exceptions for rape, incest, medical emergencies in the first 10 weeks, or fetal anomalies “incompatible with sustained life” up to 20 weeks. Indiana was the first state to enact an abortion ban after the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, while other states had “trigger” bans passed beforehand that went into immediate effect when Dobbs was handed down.
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