RTV6's Katie Heinz reports on arguments held Tuesday in federal court over an Indiana antiabortion-rights law (HEA 1337) that Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky has challenged. According to Heinz, the law bans abortion sought for various reasons, such as the sex of the fetus or a disability diagnosis, and imposes fetal tissue regulations.
Heinz explains that PPINK, which is being represented in the lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is asking the court to block the law before it takes effect July 1. Summarizing ACLU's arguments, Heinz says ACLU contends that the law "is an unprecedented and unconstitutional attempt to invade women's privacy."
PPINK CEO Betty Cockrum comments, "It is chilling to sit in that courtroom and have that prevailing suggestion that we are in a state where they have some comfort in discriminating against women and less comfort with discriminating against fetuses" (Heinz, RTV6, 6/14).


