INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ State attorneys asking a federal judge to lift an order blocking an Indiana abortion pill law that critics claim targets a Planned Parenthood clinic in Lafayette say women could seek the procedure elsewhere.
The Indiana attorney general's office filed a brief Monday supporting its request for summary judgment in the case. Both sides asked Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson to rule in their favor after she issued a preliminary injunction blocking the 2013 law in November.
The law mandates that clinics performing drug-induced abortions meet the same standards as those that perform surgical abortions. The Lafayette clinic offers only the abortion-inducing pills.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana president Betty Cockrum says the group won't close the Lafayette clinic if it loses the case, but the might stop offering abortions there.
