Red state's extreme abortion ban crumbles in court as judge dismantles stunning logic

A superior court judge in Indiana has blocked the state's near-total abortion ban from being enforced — because it isn't an absolute ban.

The case, resting on a novel legal theory, was brought in Marion Superior Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, seeking a religious exception from the abortion ban under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which would effectively allow those who disagree with the law to not follow it.

As evidence that the law applies, the ACLU pointed to the ban's exception for rape survivors ...