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An anti-choice group called “Voices for Life” is trying a new strategy to put a target on the backs of abortion providers and recipients in the state, seeking to make potentially identifying details about them publicly available.

If the group succeeds in forcing Indiana to publicly release records associated with all abortions performed there, abortion providers won’t be facing abstract risks. Eleven abortion providers have been murdered in the U.S. since 1993, and abortion clinics continue to experience arson attacks and invasions. From 2023 to 2024, there were 37 reported cases of stalking and 38 reported cases of assault and battery against abortion providers.

In states with total or near-total abortion bans, providers and patients alike face the threat of criminalization that has already caused the death of several pregnant people by delaying or denying access to life-saving abortion care.

This current attempt to intimidate abortion providers and recipients is occurring in a state that already has a near-total abortion ban.

Indiana’s abortion ban was passed almost immediately in 2022 after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. The law was initially blocked by an Indiana judge, but in 2023, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that the law could go into effect. Since then, nearly every abortion in Indiana has been illegal.

Eleven abortion providers have been murdered in the U.S. since 1993, and abortion clinics continue to experience arson attacks and invasions.

Indiana’s near-total ban has unique exceptions compared to other states with similar bans. It permits abortions in certain cases that protect the life and the health of the pregnant person. It also allows abortions in cases of a lethal fetal anomaly up to 20 weeks, and in cases of rape or incest, but only up to 10 weeks. And, since the law bans abortion clinics, all of those abortions must take place in a hospital or a hospital-owned surgical center. These account for........

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