WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:03:42" NOTE recognizability:0.834 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.540 Thanks for inviting us in. NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:01.540 --> 00:00:03.980 It is 11:00 o'clock and tonight abortion NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:06.494 clinics all across Indiana are making NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:06.494 --> 00:00:08.597 changes after the state Supreme Court NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:08.597 --> 00:00:11.090 decided not to rule on an injunction NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:11.090 --> 00:00:13.460 until January blocking the ban. NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:13.460 --> 00:00:14.980 So in the meantime, NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:14.980 --> 00:00:17.260 abortions remain legal across the state. NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:17.260 --> 00:00:19.140 So tonight we want to take a look NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:20.586 into other legal battles mounting NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:20.586 --> 00:00:22.416 against this ban this week and NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:22.416 --> 00:00:24.254 the response that we're getting NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:24.254 --> 00:00:26.099 from the Indiana Attorney General. NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:27.356 But first, at 11, NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:27.356 --> 00:00:28.926 our Rachel Kraus shares the NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:28.926 --> 00:00:30.070 shuffle taking place. NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:30.070 --> 00:00:31.465 Inside abortion care NOTE Confidence: 0.907139024516129 00:00:31.465 --> 00:00:33.325 clinics across our state. NOTE Confidence: 0.6141944 00:00:38.740 --> 00:00:40.744 Bodily autonomy, personal privacy and NOTE Confidence: 0.6141944 00:00:40.744 --> 00:00:43.790 our freedoms are just not up for grabs. NOTE Confidence: 0.645849873 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:46.596 Dr Katie McHugh, an OBGYN and NOTE Confidence: 0.645849873 00:00:46.596 --> 00:00:48.380 abortion provider in Indiana, NOTE Confidence: 0.645849873 00:00:48.380 --> 00:00:51.222 says she's feeling a sense of relief NOTE Confidence: 0.645849873 00:00:51.222 --> 00:00:53.150 after yesterday's decision by the NOTE Confidence: 0.645849873 00:00:53.150 --> 00:00:55.404 Indiana Supreme Court to take up the NOTE Confidence: 0.645849873 00:00:55.404 --> 00:00:57.600 future of abortion care in January. NOTE Confidence: 0.645849873 00:00:57.600 --> 00:00:58.836 In the meantime, NOTE Confidence: 0.645849873 00:00:58.836 --> 00:01:01.308 abortion care in Indiana can continue. NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:01.360 --> 00:01:03.346 That means that we are increasing NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:03.346 --> 00:01:04.962 access again, that we are ramping. NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:04.962 --> 00:01:07.041 Back up to where we were over the NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:07.041 --> 00:01:08.817 summer so that we can accommodate NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:08.817 --> 00:01:10.443 patients from both in our state NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:10.443 --> 00:01:12.157 and outside of our state and it NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:12.157 --> 00:01:13.639 guarantees that we will all have NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:13.639 --> 00:01:15.314 job for the remainder of 2022. NOTE Confidence: 0.79427118625 00:01:15.314 --> 00:01:16.778 And that's a really nice feeling. NOTE Confidence: 0.778517122857143 00:01:16.790 --> 00:01:19.198 After the abortion ban went into effect, NOTE Confidence: 0.778517122857143 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:21.520 clinics let a lot of staff go as NOTE Confidence: 0.778517122857143 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:23.446 they reduce services. Now they're NOTE Confidence: 0.778517122857143 00:01:23.446 --> 00:01:25.474 slowly getting back up to speed. NOTE Confidence: 0.789099284615385 00:01:25.570 --> 00:01:27.970 At one of my clinics where I work NOTE Confidence: 0.789099284615385 00:01:27.970 --> 00:01:30.009 at Women's Med in Indianapolis, NOTE Confidence: 0.789099284615385 00:01:30.010 --> 00:01:32.242 we've just so far been offering NOTE Confidence: 0.789099284615385 00:01:32.242 --> 00:01:33.358 medication abortion services NOTE Confidence: 0.789099284615385 00:01:33.358 --> 00:01:35.390 as opposed to both medication. NOTE Confidence: 0.789099284615385 00:01:35.390 --> 00:01:36.914 On surgical abortion services, NOTE Confidence: 0.789099284615385 00:01:36.914 --> 00:01:39.200 we go back to offering surgical NOTE Confidence: 0.789099284615385 00:01:39.271 --> 00:01:41.546 abortion services starting on Monday. NOTE Confidence: 0.857487617777778 00:01:41.620 --> 00:01:43.085 And with that court hearing NOTE Confidence: 0.857487617777778 00:01:43.085 --> 00:01:44.257 still three months out, NOTE Confidence: 0.857487617777778 00:01:44.260 --> 00:01:45.940 McHugh says it'll give Hoosier NOTE Confidence: 0.857487617777778 00:01:45.940 --> 00:01:48.028 women the time and ability to NOTE Confidence: 0.857487617777778 00:01:48.028 --> 00:01:49.763 seek the healthcare they need NOTE Confidence: 0.857487617777778 00:01:49.763 --> 00:01:51.151 after so much uncertainty, NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:01:51.220 --> 00:01:53.300 seeking care, which is sometimes NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:01:53.300 --> 00:01:55.380 banned or will be banned, NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:01:55.380 --> 00:01:57.102 or was banned but now isn't banned NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:01:57.102 --> 00:01:58.937 but might be again in the future. NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:01:58.940 --> 00:02:00.720 The confusion in the intimidation NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:02.500 is part of the point. NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:02:02.500 --> 00:02:04.032 Patient volume was very, NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:02:04.032 --> 00:02:05.947 very high until the ban. NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:02:05.950 --> 00:02:06.778 Went into effect, NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:02:06.778 --> 00:02:08.434 and then we have not seen NOTE Confidence: 0.822724012 00:02:08.434 --> 00:02:10.128 the same volume since then, NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:11.596 McHugh says. Every day, NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:11.596 --> 00:02:13.341 her patients tell her how NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:13.341 --> 00:02:15.050 relieved and grateful they are NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:15.050 --> 00:02:17.000 to have access to abortion care. NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:18.730 Once again, it's giving her NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:18.730 --> 00:02:20.901 hope that the state's High Court NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:20.901 --> 00:02:23.133 will rule in favor of returning NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:23.133 --> 00:02:24.994 those decisions back to the NOTE Confidence: 0.826646938 00:02:24.994 --> 00:02:26.689 women whose lives they impact. NOTE Confidence: 0.872583091818182 00:02:26.780 --> 00:02:28.910 Even just a few months of NOTE Confidence: 0.872583091818182 00:02:28.910 --> 00:02:30.720 guaranteed access to abortion care. NOTE Confidence: 0.872583091818182 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:33.898 That is enormous when we are talking NOTE Confidence: 0.872583091818182 00:02:33.898 --> 00:02:35.561 about individual freedoms, privacy. NOTE Confidence: 0.872583091818182 00:02:35.561 --> 00:02:37.367 Of individuals and the ability of NOTE Confidence: 0.872583091818182 00:02:37.367 --> 00:02:39.892 a of a constituency to trust their NOTE Confidence: 0.872583091818182 00:02:39.892 --> 00:02:42.220 government to leave them alone when NOTE Confidence: 0.872583091818182 00:02:42.282 --> 00:02:44.496 it is not the government's business. NOTE Confidence: 0.8951198 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:47.586 Tomorrow another lawsuit from NOTE Confidence: 0.8951198 00:02:47.586 --> 00:02:49.840 the ACLU goes before a judge and NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:02:49.903 --> 00:02:52.241 this time it's focus on the claims NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:02:52.241 --> 00:02:53.704 of religious freedom violations NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:02:53.704 --> 00:02:55.679 instead of right to privacy. NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:57.696 This lawsuit was filed on behalf of NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:02:57.696 --> 00:02:59.579 five women from different faiths. NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:02:59.580 --> 00:03:01.710 The ACLU is seeking an additional NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:03:01.710 --> 00:03:03.532 injunction against the ban after NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:03:03.532 --> 00:03:05.554 a victory yesterday in the state NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:03:05.554 --> 00:03:07.638 Supreme Court from their other case. NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:03:07.640 --> 00:03:09.296 The state filed a 48 page NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:03:09.296 --> 00:03:10.400 response to the lawsuit, NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.766 saying the argument is murky since none NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:03:12.766 --> 00:03:15.280 of the women involved are pregnant. NOTE Confidence: 0.878820362692308 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:17.527 The hearing tomorrow starts at 9:00 AM. NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:18.430 --> 00:03:20.272 So As for this legal battle NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:20.272 --> 00:03:21.900 brewing in Indiana Supreme Court, NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:21.900 --> 00:03:23.344 Attorney General Todd Rokita NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:23.344 --> 00:03:25.510 rejects the idea that the ban NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:25.576 --> 00:03:27.568 violates our state constitution. NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:27.570 --> 00:03:29.487 Now this is just a step in the process. NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:29.490 --> 00:03:31.086 We don't know what the High NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:31.086 --> 00:03:32.630 Court is going to decide. NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:32.630 --> 00:03:35.080 Oral arguments are set for mid January. NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:37.186 In fact, you can read up on this lawsuit, NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:37.190 --> 00:03:39.514 the legal battle and perspective from the NOTE Confidence: 0.887493275454545 00:03:39.514 --> 00:03:42.000 AG's office by opening up the WTHR app.