INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana lawmaker is proposing a bill that he hopes will end abortion in the state.
State Rep. Curt Nisly said on Tuesday that he plans to file a “Protection at Conception” when the General Assembly convenes in January, according to The Times of Northwest Indiana.
The law would prohibit all abortion in the state of Indiana under any circumstances and would allow criminal prosecution of any doctor or woman who participates in an abortion.
Nisly is hoping that the newly reshaped U.S. Supreme Court under Republican President-elect Donald Trump will back his proposal.
His plan would delete the regulations permitting to abortion and treat all life as equal from the moment of conception.
Currently, under the federal right to privacy act – clarified by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade – sates are prohibited from interfering with a woman’s decision to have an abortion prior to the moment the fetus is considered viable. Generally between 20 – 24 weeks.
Those standards could change, however, once President-elect Trump takes over the White House. Trump has promised to appoint only anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court and has said he would prefer to allow states to decide whether they will permit abortions.
