INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana's attorney general will not appeal a preliminary injunction that blocked portions of the state's new abortion law from taking effect.
A spokesman for the attorney general's office says they are not proceeding because, "all the State's legal rights are preserved."
The state will instead continue on with more arguments before Judge Tanya Walton-Pratt in U.S. District Court, hoping to convince her to lift the injunction and let the law take effect.
In June, Judge Walton-Pratt blocked the law from going into effect, finding that it would likely not hold up to constitutional scrutiny.
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The law would have been one of the most restrictive abortion regulations in the country.
HEA 1337 would have made it illegal for a woman to seek an abortion on the basis of the race, gender or disability of a fetus.
The law also stipulated new restrictions on the disposal of fetal tissue.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky and the ACLU Indiana are still asking a judge to issue a permanent injunction and declare the law unconstitutional.
