Indiana AG: Overturn of Roe v. Wade wouldn’t change his office’s actions

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Lawyer Basic Todd Rokita on Tuesday stated any modifications to abortion coverage in Indiana are as much as lawmakers, not his workplace.

Rokita stated the draft U.S. Supreme Court docket opinion leaked final week within the Dobbs v. Jackson case that, if realized, would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling wouldn’t itself instantly change abortion insurance policies. He stated the ruling would merely return the query of abortion legislation to the states.

Indiana lawmakers in March requested Gov. Eric Holcomb to name a particular session on abortion legislation if Roe v. Wade have been overturned.

Rokita stated his workplace wouldn’t have interaction in any unilateral motion on abortion however would as an alternative anticipate course from lawmakers. “There’s nothing actually to behave on within the sense that the Supreme Court docket is saying that the constitutionality of the fitting to an abortion in our structure is just not there,” he stated.

Critics of the draft ruling have stated they worry overturning Roe v. Wade would jeopardize different rulings that relied on it for steerage, notably the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. Rokita stated he rejects that logic. He stated the draft opinion is obvious that it treats abortion as a novel situation. Requested whether or not he would file any courtroom briefs on LGBT rights utilizing the logic of the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, Rokita replied he wouldn’t reply a hypothetical query.

“My report speaks for itself. I very a lot am for conserving authorities restricted, permitting liberty in all its phases and fashions,” he stated.

Republican lawmakers in different states, together with Missouri, have proposed prosecuting ladies who journey out of state to hunt abortion providers or who order abortion capsules. Rokita stated, as issues at present stand, he doubted his workplace would prosecute somebody who crosses state traces for abortion providers.