WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:01:28.7990000" NOTE recognizability:0.868 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.196 Really block Indiana's new abortion law? NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:04.108 The argument in this lawsuit is NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:04.108 --> 00:00:05.380 that the abortion restrictions NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:05.434 --> 00:00:06.820 violate religious freedoms. NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:06.820 --> 00:00:09.116 Are Sierra Putman was in the courtroom NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:09.116 --> 00:00:11.238 this morning and explains that this NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:11.238 --> 00:00:12.670 lawsuit could be groundbreaking NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:12.670 --> 00:00:14.919 in how it considers religion and NOTE Confidence: 0.85508364 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.145 abortion in the state of Indiana. NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:21.070 This hearing only lasted about an hour, NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:21.070 --> 00:00:23.492 and it took place in the courtroom NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:23.492 --> 00:00:25.269 just beyond these two doors. NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:25.270 --> 00:00:27.860 And this is actually a pretty big NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:27.860 --> 00:00:30.284 lawsuit because this is one of the NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:30.284 --> 00:00:32.620 first times that the court will review NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:32.620 --> 00:00:33.840 rifra in this way. NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:35.670 Does the abortion ban violate Indiana's NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:35.729 --> 00:00:37.517 religious Freedom Restoration Act? NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.155 The ACLU argues that banning NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:39.155 --> 00:00:40.790 the vast majority of abortions NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:40.845 --> 00:00:42.321 after conception violates the NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:42.321 --> 00:00:44.166 religious views of its Jewish, NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:44.170 --> 00:00:45.622 Muslim, and spiritual clients. NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:45.622 --> 00:00:47.437 They do not believe life NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:47.437 --> 00:00:48.690 begins at conception. NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:48.690 --> 00:00:50.200 And believe that abortion is NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:51.408 needed in some instances. NOTE Confidence: 0.8658178 00:00:51.410 --> 00:00:52.310 I think that NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:00:52.310 --> 00:00:53.815 this is important because we're NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:00:53.815 --> 00:00:55.897 going to resolve for once and for NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:00:55.897 --> 00:00:57.710 all in Indiana whether and to what NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:00:57.710 --> 00:00:59.557 extent religion bears upon abortion. NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.674 Are you? Law professor Jody Madeira set NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:02.908 in on today's hearing. NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:02.908 --> 00:01:04.443 She says this lawsuit is NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:04.443 --> 00:01:05.978 also asking the court to NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:05.978 --> 00:01:07.718 weigh in on when life begins. NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:07.720 --> 00:01:09.230 These are core questions that NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:09.230 --> 00:01:10.438 have never been addressed. NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:10.438 --> 00:01:12.250 The point of today's hearing is NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:12.250 --> 00:01:13.775 for the judge to consider NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:13.775 --> 00:01:15.300 whether to allow the abortion NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:15.365 --> 00:01:17.129 restrictions to be in place while NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:17.129 --> 00:01:18.980 the Court sorts out the bigger. NOTE Confidence: 0.8673895 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:20.030 Religious questions. At NOTE Confidence: 0.8993617 00:01:20.030 --> 00:01:21.770 the end of today's hearing, NOTE Confidence: 0.8993617 00:01:21.770 --> 00:01:24.554 the judge laid out a pretty clear timeline, NOTE Confidence: 0.8993617 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:26.570 so we're expecting to get her NOTE Confidence: 0.8993617 00:01:26.570 --> 00:01:28.799 decision by the end of November.