Fri Mar 6, 2026 - 3:58 pm ESTFri Mar 6, 2026 - 5:00 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — An Indiana judge blocked the enforcement of the state’s abortion ban on the grounds that abortion is a necessary exercise of “religious” beliefs. In a Thursday court ruling, Marion County Superior Court Judge Christina R. Klineman issued a permanent injunction against Indiana’s abortion ban, which allows exceptions in cases of rape, incest, or “medical emergencies” in the first 10 weeks or fetal anomalies “incompatible with sustained life” up to 20 weeks. She ruled on behalf of anonymous plaintiffs, including a Jewish woman who believes that “life begins” after birth, and that “the health of a pregnant woman, both physical and mental, must take precedence over the potential for life embodied in a … fetus.” Another plaintiff believes we should “not harm other humans or this community of humanity,” but also that life does not begin at conception, that “a fetus is a part of the body of the mother,” and …