Indiana Abortion Notice Injunction Upheld by Divided 7th Cir.

A court order blocking Indiana’s parental notification abortion law was upheld Aug. 27 by the Seventh Circuit in a divided decision.

Indiana until 2017 allowed minors to pursue a confidential judicial bypass process when they didn’t want to seek out their parent’s consent. The new law would have required a pregnant minor’s parents to be informed of the impending abortion even after a judge authorized the procedure, unless the judge concluded notifying the parents wasn’t in the minor’s best interests.

A federal trial court in Indiana granted Planned Parenthood’s motion for a preliminary injunction blocking this requirement and the U.S. ...