Some Indiana anti-abortion activists are sounding a note of cautious optimism about the future of restricting abortion in the Hoosier State.

The Hoosier lawmakers joined the vast majority of their Republican colleagues in Congress on a brief in a case that threatens access to abortions.

The annual report from the state health department shows that the number of abortions in Indiana grew by 119, or 1.6 percent, to 7,756 during 2020.

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill recommended no criminal charges or licensing actions Wednesday after concluding an investigation into more than 2,000 sets of fetal remains found last year at the suburban Chicago garage of a late abortion doctor.

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could have huge implications for the future of reproductive rights and access to abortion. Indiana's candidates for governor each weighed in on the controversial issue this week.

A federal judge permanently struck down a 2018 Indiana anti-abortion law that required doctors to report a long list of so-called abortion complications.

Holcomb's order requires all health care facilities to postpone or cancel elective, non-urgent surgical or invasive procedures during the COVID-19 crisis, unless doing so would risk the patient's health, as determined by their doctor.

The more than 2,400 fetal remains that were found in the garage of a doctor who performed abortions in Indiana were buried Wednesday.

The 2,411 sets of fetal remains that resulted from abortions Dr. Ulrich Klopfer performed in Indiana will be memorialized Wednesday at a graveside service in South Bend.

Attorney General Curtis Hill is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of a 2017 anti-abortion law.