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

The Indiana attorney general's office has started an appeal of a federal judge's ruling that several state laws restricting abortion are unconstitutional, including the state's ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions.

Several major Indiana abortion laws were struck down in federal court on Tuesday. The case was brought by the Whole Woman's Health Alliance, which operates an abortion clinic in South Bend.

The decision came in a lawsuit brought by, among others, health care provider Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, which challenged most of the state’s abortion regulations.

Indiana abortion providers took another step this week in their effort to strike down many of the state's abortion regulations.

At issue is a new law, HB 1577, which forces doctors to tell patients about a so-called “abortion reversal” protocol that could purportedly halt the effects of a medication abortion after taking the first of two abortion-inducing drugs.

The state has been sued nine times over the last decade following passage of anti-abortion legislation.

Indiana is likely headed to court over abortion legislation again after Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the states latest anti-abortion measure into law.

Indiana's latest anti-abortion measure will likely soon become law after House legislators sent it to the governor Wednesday.

Anti-abortion advocates have promoted for years that the two-step medication-induced abortions can be reversed if interrupted halfway through. The bill would require doctors to tell their patients about that claim.