Indiana's high court said it will not immediately consider a challenge to the state's abortion ban, leaving the decision to an appeals court for now. A lower court previously sided with residents who claim the ban infringes on their religious beliefs.
FILE - 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. Indiana's high court will not immediately take up a religious-freedoms challenge to the state's abortion ban, leaving that decision for now with an appeals court, documents from Monday, Jan. 30, 2023 show.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s high court said it will not immediately consider a challenge to the state’s abortion ban that is based on the argument that the law violates some people’s religious freedoms, leaving that decision to an appeals court, at least for now. The state Supreme Court issued an order Monday saying the state Court of Appeals will first consider the case, after
who claim the state’s abortion ban infringes on their religious beliefs. The state attorney general’s office appealed that decision, asking the high court to take up the case.— who hold Muslim, Jewish and other faiths — after Republican state lawmakers enacted the ban last summer.ADVERTISEMENTby Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, goes against those residents’ religious values regarding when they believe the treatment is acceptable, the lawsuit argues.
Earlier in January, the state Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by abortion clinic operators. The court has maintained a block on
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