AG Todd Rokita (R) Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (ADAMS) – Abortion in Indiana will become illegal if Roe is struck down, but the state’s top law enforcer says that does not mean an immediate change to how the law will be applied.
Attorney General Todd Rokita yesterday said he will wait for lawmakers to decide what Indiana’s post-Roe abortion laws will be. Rokita said his office would not engage in any unilateral action.
Indiana lawmakers are pressing Governor Holcomb for a special session to deal with abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court does in fact strike Roe down.
The governor has not yet said if he will call for that special session.
The AG’s office released the following on Tuesday:
Attorney General Todd Rokita is leading an 18-state coalition fighting the Biden administration’s latest efforts to derail a Texas law that prohibits abortion when doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat.
“We will continue to protect the lives of the unborn and the health of women, especially against those who believe the individual states are incapable of passing our own laws to do so,” Attorney General Rokita said.
Attorney General Rokita led an 18-state amicus brief filed Monday in the Fifth District U.S. Court of Appeals.
“For months I have praised this law as a pro-life model for use in other states. I have led previous multistate actions supporting Texas paving the way so that other states—including Indiana—could adopt such a law,” said Attorney General Rokita. “Oklahoma, for example, recently enacted its own law modeled after the Texas Heartbeat Law.”
Among other things, Attorney General Rokita’s brief argues that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland cannot sue a state anytime he deems a state law to be unconstitutional — especially when no state official plays a role in enforcing the law.
