On Monday, July 25, Indiana legislators will meet at the Statehouse for a special session on increasing abortion restrictions in the state, among other issues, according to NPR.
If the ban takes place, Indiana would join about a dozen other states that have banned abortion with very few exceptions.
Vice President Kamala Harris is headed to Indianapolis to meet with some of those lawmakers on reproductive rights amid the debate, but the special session could run for a few weeks.
There's been enormous focus on the state and abortion over the last couple of weeks, in part because of a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who got an abortion in the state. (Abortions after six weeks are illegal in Ohio.)
The physician who provided the abortion, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, is taking a key step toward a possible defamation lawsuit against Indiana's Republican attorney general, Todd Rokita, the outlet stated in a separate article. In a letter sent to Rokita and other Indiana state officials, Bernard's attorney says she believes her client has suffered harm as a result of Rokita's recent public statements about Bernard and her work as an abortion provider after she spoke publicly about caring for the 10-year-old patient. "He is wrongly accusing her of misconduct in her profession, so we want that smear campaign to stop," attorney Kathleen DeLaney said.
