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    ‘I feel they are taking our rights away’: Tensions rise as Indiana Legislature meets in special session to debate abortion ban legislation

    by Alexandra Kukulka, The Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana Jul 25, 2022 6 minutes
    Indiana's new abortion bill does not list a gestational cut off for abortion.

    MERRILLVILLE, Indiana — As the Indiana Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure committee meeting was about to start Monday morning, people packed the hallways outside the Senate chamber and viewing area — the majority of people yelling slogans supportive of abortion rights — as the General Assembly gathered for a special session where it will likely will ban abortion with few exceptions in the state.

    Outside the statehouse, a group of people with pro-abortion rights signs covered a man with a “pro-choice” sign depicting a dead baby. Another group of pro-abortion rights people stood around a man playing an electric keyboard and singing religious songs. Another man was holding a red baby doll and yelling “save the babies,” as a group of people with pro-abortion rights signs covered and yelled over him.

    The Indiana Legislature officially met to start a special session to address a taxpayer refund and a bill banning abortion in Indiana.

    The session began July 6, but Republican

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