Vol. 75/No. 23      June 13, 2011

The article “Abortion rights curbed by Indiana state gov’t,” which appeared on the front page of the June 6 issue, inaccurately reported that the Indiana law requires abortion providers to tell women seeking the procedure “that abortion causes infertility” (emphasis added).

The text of the law says that the person performing the abortion must inform the patient of: “The risk of infection and hemorrhage; the potential danger to a subsequent pregnancy; and the potential danger of infertility.”

The patient must also be informed that “human physical life begins when a human ovum is fertilized by a human sperm” and that “objective scientific information shows that a fetus can feel pain at or before twenty weeks.”  
 
 
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