The law, set to take effect on July 1, was put on hold Friday after Senior Judge Sarah Evans Barker issued an injunction.
A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Indiana law banning a second-trimester abortion procedure from taking effect, just days before it was set to become enforceable legislation.
Barker cited safety as the reason for her decision:"HEA 1211 prohibits physicians from utilizing the most common, safest, often most cost effective, and best understood method of second trimester abortion, requiring 52 instead resort to alternatives that are medically riskier, more costly, less reliable, and in some instances simply unavailable, while accomplishing little more than expressing hostility towards the constitutionally fundamental right of women to control their own...
Under the law, which was initially passed in April by the state's GOP-dominated Legislature, doctors caught performing such abortions could be charged with a felony crime, punishable by a maximum sentence of six years in prison. . Indiana attorneys argued that the state was within its jurisdiction to limit abortion rights by referencing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2017 which allowed a ban on the method.
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