Indiana becomes the first state to ban abortion after Supreme Court ruling

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Until now, no state has passed a new legislative bill to restrict abortion: Indiana is the first.
46% : Until now, abortion was legal in Indiana up to 22 weeks gestation.
39% : This has caused some states to begin implementing the so-called "zombie laws" that had been proclaimed before the Supreme Court guaranteed the right to abortion in 1973, while other states have activated "spring laws" so called because they were designed to come into force just as the right to abortion was repealed.
35% : At that time, Indiana will join nine other US states with laws that almost completely ban abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which does research on reproductive rights.
35% : Republicans in Indiana had been working on this bill for weeks, but they were divided: a majority wanted to completely ban abortion while a minority believed that some exceptions should be established in the case of rape or incest.

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