{"id":2238100,"date":"2024-05-06T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prolifers-sue-indiana-for-records-that-reveal-abortionist-atrocities\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:28:02","slug":"prolifers-sue-indiana-for-records-that-reveal-abortionist-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prolifers-sue-indiana-for-records-that-reveal-abortionist-atrocities\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Life Advocates in Indiana Sue for Abortionist Atrocity Records"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fprolifers-sue-indiana-for-records-that-reveal-abortionist-atrocities%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=2238100&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--><p>Indiana\u2062 implemented a robust abortion ban\u2063 post-Roe v. Wade, but faced bureaucratic obstacles.\u200d The law, allowing abortions only in\u200b specific cases, led\u2062 to a significant reduction in procedures. However, the state&#8217;s health department \u2062ceased\u200d public\u2063 disclosure of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indiana-health-dept-sits-on-records-showing-two-babies-born-alive-after-abortions-three-women-dead\/\" title=\"Indiana Health Dept. Sits On Records Showing Two Babies Born Alive After Abortions, Three Women Dead\">terminated pregnancy reports<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-tony-everss-veto-to-extend-school-funding-for-400-years-in-wisconsin-faces-challenge-from-business-lobby\/\" title=\"Business lobby challenges Gov. Tony Evers's veto of 400-year school funding extension in Wisconsin\">prompting legal action<\/a> by pro-life advocates Voices for\u2062 Life. This move highlights the\u200d importance of transparency in monitoring \u200cabortion \u2064practices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Indiana passed the first and one of the strongest abortion bans in the country after the Supreme Court reversal of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, only to be thwarted by the state\u2019s bureaucrats. <\/p>\n<p>The new law, with exceptions for rape, incest, lethal fetal anomaly, and serious threat to the mother\u2019s health, blocked hundreds of abortions. Once the law went into effect, the number of abortions in the last quarter of 2023 drastically dropped to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/health\/vital-records\/files\/CY2023Q4-TPR-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just 46 in the entire state, compared to 1,724 abortions in the same time period a year before<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1460265764\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e6d610159167de23593390c695a0801c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e6d610159167de23593390c695a0801c\"><\/div>\n<p>At the same time abortion numbers began to drop in Indiana, the state\u2019s department of health, which tracks each abortion that takes place in Indiana, stopped issuing what are called terminated pregnancy reports. The reports, which dated back to the 1970s, provided watchdog groups with a window into the abortion industry, allowing them to do oversight and submit complaints regarding doctors not following the law.<\/p>\n<p>With dramatically fewer abortions taking place with the new ban, the Indiana Department of Health argued patients would be more easily identifiable. With the backing of the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-accountability-on-back-burner-as-ag-makes-excuses-legislator-says\/\" title=\"Legislator criticizes AG for putting government accountability on the back burner with excuses\">public access counselor<\/a>, the department ceased making the individual reports available, claiming that they were now medical records and no longer subject to the state\u2019s public access law.\u00a0Indiana\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature and Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/30\/ruby-red-indiana-seeks-public-health-power-grab-despite-massive-covid-failures\/\">increased <\/a>the health department\u2019s funding in the last legislative session from $7 million to $150 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>Now just weeks after Indiana\u2019s Attorney General Todd Rokita challenged the health department\u2019s decision to withhold these reports, South Bend, Indiana-based Voices for Life is suing the health department to release them. It is the exact course of action Rokita suggested in his press conference, because it was his opinion that the abortion reports\u2014which do not disclose private identifying information\u2014remain public records and should be open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>If someone can\u2019t get access, he said, \u201cYou have the right to sue the State of Indiana. That\u2019s the bottom line.\u201d Voices for Life, which filed its lawsuit this week,\u00a0is represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasmoresociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thomas More Society<\/a>, a legal nonprofit that frequently works on behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-ariana-grande-called-smollett-incident-really-f-sick\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Ariana Grande Called Smollett Incident \u2018Really F****** Sick\u2019\">pro-life initiatives<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6ef1b8f7fda874655a93d3ef35c3b5de fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6ef1b8f7fda874655a93d3ef35c3b5de\"><\/div>\n<p>In the last two years, Voices for Life has submitted complaints for 701 abortion cases to both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-dean-msm-coverage-of-cuomo-was-puff-pieces-while-there-were-bodybags-piling-up\/\" title=\"FNC's Dean: MSM Coverage of Cuomo Was 'Puff Pieces' While 'There Were Bodybags Piling up'\">attorney general\u2019<\/a>s office and the health department from information the group\u2019s enforcement team gathered from terminated pregnancy reports. Groups like Voices for Life serve an important role, because the attorney general is prohibited from starting investigations on such matters on his own. A member of the public must initiate the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Voices for Life tracks Indiana\u2019s abortions and provides detailed information on its <a href=\"https:\/\/voicesforlife.com\/enforcement-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">web site<\/a>, featuring the doctors who perform abortions and their violations, which are as severe as maternal deaths and babies born alive. As Voices for Life notes on its page, \u201cAny industry that profits off the taking of innocent human life isn\u2019t interested in following the law.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Maintaining public access to the abortion reports is essential with the new abortion ban in place to make sure the exception loopholes are not abused, according to Voices for Life executive director Melanie Lyon. The goal is not to go after women, but to make sure that doctors are held accountable, she says. <\/p>\n<p>She argued Indiana\u2019s Republican-overseen health department is not helping women by deciding to hide records from the public, it\u2019s helping provide cover for abortionists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5224173160e6ad48f1519bd662b61004 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5224173160e6ad48f1519bd662b61004\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t about protecting women. This is about protecting dangerous abortion providers from public scrutiny and consequences for illegal activity,\u201d said Lyon when announcing her lawsuit. <\/p>\n<p>Without the terminated pregnancy reports, there can be no oversight of the new law. That is why having this situation resolved is so important to both Voices for Life and the attorney general\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p>While the state\u2019s health department continues to release aggregated quarterly reports, Lyon explained in a letter to supporters why individual terminated pregnancy reports are still essential:\u00a0\u201cThe most recent Indiana abortion quarterly totals listed one baby born alive after a botched abortion. Because the health department is hiding the individual abortion report, we can\u2019t see 1) which hospital performed the botched abortion, 2) which abortionist committed the grisly deed or 3) the type of abortion procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout such crucial data, enforcement is impossible,\u201d Lyon concludes. That is why the eventual re-release of terminated pregnancy reports is essential if Indiana is to ensure that the abortion ban its legislature and governor enacted is actually the law of the land. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9e07167530f776c47f3c57d44140814f fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9e07167530f776c47f3c57d44140814f\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana&#8217;s groundbreaking abortion ban, one of the nation&#8217;s strongest post-Roe v. Wade, faced obstruction from state officials, leading to the blocking of numerous abortions. This law, with provisions for limited scenarios like rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities, and maternal health risks, set a new precedent before encountering bureaucratic challenges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"featured_media":2238101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/27005382217_f60c8f1eca_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/27005382217_f60c8f1eca_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}