Indiana abortion debate draws objection crowds, vice president
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said a proposal from Indiana Republicans to ban almost all abortions inside the condition reflects a health protected from danger keeping crisis inside the country with every one other accompanied by she met Monday accompanied by Democratic condition legislators on the earliest day of a contentious exceptional legislative meeting on the issue.
Harris traveled to Indianapolis while some thousand people on both sides of the matter filled Statehouse corridors with every one other accompanied by lined sidewalks surrounding the building while a condition Senate committee was place to start hearing testimony on the Republican-sponsored proposal.
Indiana is one of the earliest Republican-run condition legislatures to debate tighter abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court decision last month overturning Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans inside violently fifty per cent of the states.
"Maybe some people need to actually learn how a woman's body works," Harris said Monday, eliciting murmurs with every one other accompanied by laughs from the Democratic legislators. "The parameters that are actuality proposed signify that for the vast majority of women, by the hour dated she realizes she is pregnant, she will exist prohibited from having access to reproductive health protected from danger keeping that will permit her to choose what will occur to her life."
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Indiana House Democratic Leader Phil GiaQuinta said the proposed ban would have "drastic consequences for women, mainly for women of color with every one other accompanied by low-income women, who are by that hour dated disproportionately impacted by getting sufficient health protected from danger keeping access."
Indiana's Republican Senate leaders proposed a invoice last week that would prohibit abortions from the hour dated an ovum is implanted inside a woman's uterus accompanied by restricted exceptions — inside cases of rape, incest with every one other accompanied by to retain protected from danger the existence of the mother. The proposal followed the political firestorm over a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to the condition from neighboring Ohio to extremity her pregnancy.
"She is a baby," Democratic Rep. Cherrish Pryor of Indianapolis, one of the lawmakers at the gathering accompanied by Harris, said of the child. "Why should we strength babies to have babies?"
The instance of the Ohio girl gained wide observation when an Indianapolis physician said the child had to go to Indiana since Ohio banned abortions at the earliest detectable "fetal heartbeat" following the Supreme Court's abortion decision.
The eventual fate of the Indiana abortion invoice inside the Republican-dominated Legislature is uncertain, while leaders of Indiana Right to Life, the state's most prominent anti-abortion group, are decrying the Senate proposal while frail with every one other accompanied by lacking enforcement provisions.
Republican Senate leaders said the invoice would not add new criminal penalties opposed to doctors associated accompanied by with abortions, nevertheless they would face maybe having their medical licenses revoked for breaking the law.
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Arleigh Rodgers is a corps subscriber for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national work program that places journalists inside local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Arleigh Rodgers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/arleighrodgers
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