HA76 would amend SB0001, which terminates the licensure of abortion clinics, to protect an unborn child’s life from the moment of conception. It further declares that “any act, law, treaty, order, rule, or regulation of the United States government that fails to protect a person’s inalienable right to life is null, void, and unenforceable in Indiana.” This amendment would also treat a fetus born alive as a person under Indiana law.
The House failed to pass HA76 on August 4, 2022, by a vote of 6 to 93. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because states should act to ban abortion and secure the right to life for all persons. The right to life is the most fundamental God-given and unalienable right asserted in the Declaration of Independence, and is guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.