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Indiana Abortion Bill Moves Through House Committees
By: Sheila McCrea - Wednesday, August 3, 2022

INDIANAPOLIS — It was another day of heated testimony Tuesday on a controversial abortion bill.

Demonstrators on both sides of the issue made their voices heard during about eight hours of testimony on the chamber floor of the Indiana House of Representatives.

The Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard the restrictive bill after the Indiana Senate OK'd it last week. But representatives approved an amendment expanding the criteria for certain cases where abortion is allowed.

The Senate version would allow abortion only to prevent a mother's death. The House amendment, however; would allow abortions to protect the mother's life and physical health.

The amended version also makes exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies.

Both House and Senate versions would allow exceptions in cases of rape and incest.

Otherwise, abortion in Indiana would become a felony. But the House amendment removes language allowing the state attorney general to prosecute abortions if the county prosecutor refuses.

Also in the House amendment: an all-out termination of abortion clinic licenses.

If passed into law, procedures could only happen at hospitals or outpatient surgical centers.

Senate bills 1 and 2 are planned for second readings in the full house on Thursday.




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