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Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill appealed to the Supreme Court, on Friday. Hill is asking the nation’s highest court to implement restrictions on abortion.
Those increased restrictions were passed by the state legislature during then-Governor Mike Pence’s administration, in 2016. The abortion statutes, called House Enrolled Act 1337, seek to prohibit women in the state from getting an abortion because of a fetus’ developmental, disability, or race.
A second part of House Enrolled Act 1337 also sought for women who receive an abortion to bury or cremate their fetal remains.
In two separate legal challenges, regional appeals courts struck down both measures of HEA 1337. The Seventh circuit appeals court cited federal Supreme Court decisions on increasing abortion regulations, including cases like Roe vs. Wade, which have found states should not further regulate a woman’s constitutional right to her body.
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill’s request for the Supreme Court to take up HEA 1337, comes after the second appointment to the bench by President Donald Trump.
