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For
immediate release
September
24, 2003
Contact:
Executive Director Mike Fichter 812-435-2238
Indiana
Supreme Court ruling expands taxpayer coverage for abortions
Indiana
Right to Life is denouncing today's ruling by the Indiana
Supreme Court which greatly expands coverage for abortions
in Indiana through the taxpayer-funded Medicaid program. According
to Justice Dickson's dissent, “Justice Sullivan's opinion,
while purporting in Part I to find the enacted limitations
on Medicaid abortion coverage constitutionally valid, nevertheless
in Part II has the effect of granting almost all the relief
sought by the plaintiffs in the case.”
The
complete decision can be found at http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/completed/09240301.fsj.html
“The
Indiana Constitution expressly limits the state from paying
for any abortions unless it is necessary to preserve the life
of the mother,” states executive director Mike Fichter. “Today's
ruling flies in the face of our Constitution, our legislative
assembly, and the vast majority of taxpayers in Indiana.”
Fichter
predicts that abortion providers will use the “substantial
and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function” provision
allowed by the Court to justify virtually all abortions in
Indiana. “This will provide a loophole big enough to drive
a truck though,” says Fichter. “It appears that all it will
take to get an abortion paid for at taxpayer expense is the
clinical judgment of the doctor performing the abortion.”
“A
lot of hard working Hoosiers have just been presented with
the bill for the killing of unborn babies in Indiana.”
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