Indiana Supreme Court keeps state abortion ban blocked

• Owen County Judge Kelsey Hanlon wrote in the court's opinion at the time that "there is a reasonable likelihood that this significant restriction of personal autonomy offends the liberty guarantees of the Indiana Constitution."
• Hanlon said that the health providers "will prevail" in the lawsuit.

What's happening: The Indiana state Supreme Court agreed to consider the case after state officials filed an appeal to the lower court's decision.

• While the court agreed to hear the case, they denied the defendants' petition to set aside the appellate court's preliminary injunction on the law.

Details: Indiana's near-total ban, S.B. 1, criminalizes abortion, unless when necessary to "prevent any serious health risk" of a pregnant person, to save their life, if there's a "lethal fetal anomaly," or if the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest.

• It also "terminates the licensure of abortion clinics," making it so that abortions can only be provided in hospitals.