I’m at the Indiana statehouse this week for @19thnews as state lawmakers consider new abortion legislation that would ban abortion with narrow exceptions.
Protests are expected inside and outside all week.
Indiana Senate committee votes to advance near-total abortion ban despite critiques. 60+ people testified, & not a single person favored the bill.
Before the vote, the bill's author said: “Am I happy with the bill? Not exactly."
my latest via @19thnews https://t.co/OiYZ9GJR40
Now is not the time to gloat, one anti-abortion advocate said.
“Now is the time to get to work and create a world that supports and protects not just the unborn person in the womb, but the equally as human and valuable people carrying them.”
@19thnews https://t.co/Z83DLsl3Sj
I did not know this: “Unlike his predecessor, Conley doesn't have an M.D. Instead he has a D.O.: doctor of osteopathic medicine. He graduated in 2006 from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, according to the school.” https://t.co/NO0lM1T2LR
With school closed and graduation canceled, the principal of a high school in suburban Dallas set out on April 17 with his wife, a bag of Snickers bars and a mission: visiting each of the 612 seniors at their homes. https://t.co/ZV9MqFRNhM