Judge blocks Indiana abortion ban on religious freedom grounds

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Reuters via Yahoo News

(Reuters) - A second Indiana judge on Friday blocked the state from enforcing its law banning most abortions after Jewish, Muslim and other non-Christian women challenged it in a lawsuit.

Marion County Superior Court Judge Heather Welch issued a preliminary injunction against the Republican-backed law, which prohibits abortions with limited exceptions for rape, incest, lethal fetal abnormalities or a serious health risk to the mother. The plaintiffs have argued that the measure infringes on religious freedom protected by another state law.

The law had already been on hold, as another judge in September blocked Indiana from enforcing it while Planned Parenthood and other healthcare providers challenge it in court.

Welch issued her injunction after a group called Hoosier Jews for Choice and five individual women challenged the abortion law under Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU said the plaintiffs represented religions including Judaism and Islam as well as "independent spiritual belief systems."

[yankee87]

1. Love it

Using a law meant to bash all non Christian nationalists with their version of the Handmaid’s tale.

[everyonematters]

2. That's where the notion that women should be forced to carry thru on a pregnancy comes from -

religion. When the founders wrote the Constitution, they didn't create a state church. That's what Great Britain had. I think they wanted people to live their lives according to their own beliefs and conscience.