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The bill, filed by state Sen. Mike Young ®, would make it a misdemeanor to prescribe or possess medication abortion, though it carves out an exception for pregnant people who already have the pills.
While all three bills offer a stated exception for someone imminently about to take the pills, this policy remains incredibly dangerous. After Donald Trump won reelection, consequently threatening access to abortion pills in all states, organizations like Plan C Pills called on pregnant-capable people to buy medication abortion in advance while you can, whether you’re pregnant or not. These laws could criminalize this.
Indiana’s same, wide-reaching bill, SB 171, would also make it illegal for organizations like abortion funds to pay for or subsidize the costs of medication abortion, and would give Indiana’s attorney jurisdiction over criminal cases involving medication abortion should local prosecutors decline to prosecute these cases.
And, in an especially cruel feature of SB 171, it would further narrow the rape exception attached to the state’s existing abortion ban, requiring that if a survivor wants an abortion, they have to provide their doctor with an affidavit and potentially face perjury penalties for supposed false reports.
SB 171 also comes as more and more anti-abortion lawmakers are targeting the mere act of helping someone access abortion, whether through legal threats or lawsuits against abortion funds, or bills to criminalize helping someone travel across state lines for care. The goal is transparently to trap as many people as possible under abortion bans.
I feel gross upvoting this for visibility, so having done so, here’s some choice quotations from the article, for those who don’t want to read the whole thing, emphasis mine.