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New indiana mandate that women undergo an ultrasound at least 18 hours before they have an abortion is unconstitutional and will prevent some women from getting abortions, a federal lawsuit filed thursday american civil liberties union of indiana and planned parenthood of indiana and kentucky argue in the suit filed in u.

Most women seeking abortions at planned parenthood's clinics are low-income and cannot freely travel or afford to take time off from work, the suit also argues that planned parenthood's few clinics with ultrasound equipment will become more crowded as women flock to them to get ultrasounds, delaying abortions and preventing some women from ending their requirement that women undergo ultrasounds at least 18 hours before having an abortion replaces a previous indiana provision that required women to get an ultrasound before having an abortion but did not specify when that had to d parenthood had performed those ultrasounds on women immediately prior to their abortions, the suit falk, the aclu of indiana's legal director, said the new provision "provides no health benefit to women and serves only to place a substantial obstacle to obtaining an abortion.

Mike pence signed into law in aclu and planned parenthood also sued the state over two of that law's other measures and a federal judge temporarily blocked both last week, finding that indiana does not have the authority to limit a woman's reasons for ending a provisions would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, race, gender or ancestry, and required that aborted fetuses be buried or said the new lawsuit was filed in large part because the u.

He also said planned parenthood's clinics are already seeing "backups and problems" as women seek ultrasounds a day or more in advance of their planned a's attorney general's office, which represents the state in legal challenges, said in a statement that it would review the new challenge "with our client and will file a response in federal court at the appropriate time.

The suit names as defendants indiana's state health commissioner and the prosecutors of marion, lake, monroe and tippecanoe counties — where planned parenthood offers abortion services at clinics in indianapolis, merrillville, bloomington and nonprofit guttmacher institute, which supports legal access to abortion, says indiana, louisiana, mississippi and south dakota have the nation's most sweeping abortion a's new ultrasound requirement "adds no value in a state already fraught with difficult and unnecessary regulations regarding a truly safe and legal procedure," betty cockrum, president and ceo of planned parenthood of indiana and kentucky, said in a , lawmakers face backlash over new indiana abortion search of abortion, women are flocking to illinois.