Indiana passed the first and one of the strongest abortion bans in the country after the Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade, only to be thwarted by the state’s bureaucrats.
The new law, with exceptions for rape, incest, lethal fetal anomaly, and serious threat to the mother’s health, blocked hundreds of abortions. Once the law went into effect, the number of abortions in the last quarter of 2023 drastically dropped to just 46 in the entire state, compared to 1,724 abortions in the same time period a year before.
At the same time abortion numbers began to drop in Indiana, the state’s department of health, which tracks each abortion that takes place in Indiana, stopped issuing what are called terminated pregnancy reports. The reports, which
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