BREAKING NEWS: An Indiana judge has temporarily halted enforcement of the state's new ban on abortions.
on Aug. 5 and signed by GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb. That made Indiana the first state to enact tighter abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion protections by overturning Roe v. Wade in June.
The ban, which includes limited exceptions, replaced Indiana laws that generally prohibited abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy and tightly restricted them after the 13th week. The state attorney general's office said the court should uphold the ban, calling arguments against it based on a"novel, unwritten, historically unsupported right to abortion" in the state constitution.
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