Abortion: Indiana becomes first US state to enact an almost total ban

The US state of Indiana will ban abortions after 15 September 2022 except in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal anomaly, or a serious risk to the health or life of the pregnant patient. It is the first state to pass such a ban since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 decision legalising abortion, in June of this year.Indiana is the state where a 10 year old girl, pregnant after rape, was taken for an abortion last month when it was too late for her to be treated in her home state of Ohio.1 A midwestern state with a population of about 6.8 million, it usually votes Republican.Indiana’s law, known as Senate Bill 1,2 was passed by the state’s senate and house of representatives and signed on 5 August by its Republican governor, Eric Holcomb. He praised the bill as “protecting life.”3Abortions for a fatal fetal anomaly…
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