UPDATE (July 11, 2022):
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) – Marion County’s top prosecutor is once again saying he won’t prosecute anyone if abortion is outlawed in Indiana.
Prosecutor Ryan Mears said filing charges against women or doctors would require him to violate the confidentiality between a woman and her physician.
Indiana lawmakers are expected to approve a new abortion law in the coming weeks that will further restrict abortion in the state. No one knows for sure just what that law will include.
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ORIGINAL STORY:
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) – Democratic prosecutors in Indiana are asking lawmakers not to force them to choose about pressing charges in abortion cases.
Marion County’s prosecutor has already said he won’t press charges against women or doctors if Indiana bans abortions. Prosecutors in Lake County, which is the second-largest Democratic county in the state, say they will examine each case individually based on what the state’s new abortion law will be.
Monroe County’s Democratic prosecutors says she will follow state law, but is asking lawmakers not to criminalize abortion in the state.
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