{"id":1642565,"date":"2022-09-16T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642565"},"modified":"2022-09-16T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:49:06","slug":"pro-lifers-fear-abortion-loopholes-as-indianas-near-total-ban-goes-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-lifers-fear-abortion-loopholes-as-indianas-near-total-ban-goes-into-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Lifers Fear Abortion Loopholes As Indiana\u2019s \u2018Near-Total\u2019 Ban Goes Into Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-lifers-fear-abortion-loopholes-as-indianas-near-total-ban-goes-into-effect%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642565&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Post-<em>Roe<\/em>, pro-lifers are grappling with potential next steps in the fight to end legal abortion. Last week, Catholics for Life <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/now-is-the-time-catholic-pro-life-group-petitions-us-supreme-court-to-recognize-fetal-personhood\/?utm_source=daily-usa-2022-09-13&amp;utm_medium=email\">petitioned<\/a> the Supreme Court to recognize the unborn as persons under the law. This week, Sen. Lindsey Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=8F99177C-2BD3-44CA-9D7F-E86AA1A25BF9\">proposed<\/a> a bill that would ban most late-term abortions. And yesterday, Indiana\u2019s new abortion law, <a href=\"http:\/\/iga.in.gov\/legislative\/2022ss1\/bills\/senate\/1\">SB 1<\/a>, took effect. <\/p>\n<p>The bill is facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-in.org\/en\/news\/indiana-abortion-litigation\">lawsuits<\/a> from the ACLU, but it is also controversial among pro-lifers. The bill has been described as a near-total abortion ban with narrow exceptions for the life and health of the mother, rape and incest, and lethal fetal anomaly, but some pro-life Hoosiers are concerned that it is full of loopholes and potentially devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p>For example, SB 1 allows a baby conceived in rape or incest to be aborted up to ten weeks after conception (or 12 weeks of pregnancy measured from the woman\u2019s last menstrual period), but the bill does not require proof of the crime. A <a href=\"https:\/\/iga.in.gov\/static-documents\/3\/e\/d\/6\/3ed693b6\/SB0001.01.INTR.pdf\">previous version<\/a> of the bill required the mother to sign an affidavit attesting to the rape or incest, but this language was removed. The final version only requires that the attending physician (that is, the abortionist) \u201ccertify in writing \u2026 after proper examination, the abortion is being performed at the woman\u2019s request because the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.\u201d The abortionist must include \u201c[a]ll facts and reasons supporting the certification,\u201d but that\u2019s all. No affidavit, no police report, no criminal charges, no rape kit, and no legal consequences for a woman who lies.<\/p>\n<p>SB 1 also terminates licensure for abortion clinics, requiring all abortions still legal under the bill to be done either in a hospital or in an ambulatory outpatient surgical center with majority ownership by a hospital. Chrystal Sisson, a pro-life sidewalk counselor, said this \u201ccompletely ends\u201d her sidewalk outreach, as she will have no way of knowing why a woman is entering a hospital or surgical center.<\/p>\n<p>Sisson stands outside of the Women\u2019s Med clinic in Indianapolis for two hours nearly every day the clinic is open. She and other pro-life advocates call to the women, telling them about the love of Jesus and life in the womb and offering prayer and help. Sisson, who has been sidewalk counseling outside of abortion clinics since 2013, said that in just the last two weeks they have seen nine babies saved from abortion, only counting ones where parents came and told the sidewalk counselors they had changed their minds and chosen life. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the ministry that they just ended,\u201d Sisson said, \u201cthe nine babies that were saved within the last two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Fichter, president of Indiana Right to Life told me in an email that clinics might remain open as sites for abortion counseling and referrals, allowing sidewalk counselors to continue their work. For the time being, Women\u2019s Med is still open.<\/p>\n<p>Sisson said that when she first started coming the clinic did abortions one day a week, typically 20-25. She said there was an uptick beginning around 2020, when the clinic was open a second day and the average number of abortions each week was more like 40. After the overturn of <em>Roe v. Wade,<\/em> Sisson said, the numbers exploded. She claims the clinic performs 60 to 80 abortions almost every weekday following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An amendment to SB 1 proposed by Rep. Curt Nisly would have banned abortion altogether, but the overwhelmingly Republican House of Representatives voted down the amendment 93-6. Nisly voted against the final version of the bill. \u201cIn the end, it was an abortion bill; it wasn\u2019t a life bill,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n<p>Fichter said that the bill, while not the end, was \u201ca major step forward.\u201d The consequences of the bill largely remain to be seen. Whether SB 1 turns out to be a victory or a setback for protecting the unborn, for Hoosiers like for the rest of America, the fight is far from over.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Olivia Hajicek is an intern at The Federalist and a junior at Hillsdale College studying history and journalism. She has covered campus and city news as a reporter for The Hillsdale Collegian. You can reach her at olivia.hajicek@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post-Roe, pro-lifers are grappling with potential next steps in the fight to end legal abortion. 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