A Woman's Choice-East Side Women's Clinic v. Scott C. Newman, Prosecuting Attorney for Marion County Indiana, on Behalf of a Class of Prosecutors

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

In 1995 Indiana enacted a statute making the woman’s informed consent a condition to an abortion. Ind.Code § 16-34-2-1.1. Even though the text of this law is materially identical to one held constitutional in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, 881-87, 112 S.Ct. 2791, 120 L.Ed.2d 674 (1992), a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction preventing the statute from taking effect. A Woman’s Choice-East Side Women’s Clinic v. Newman, 904 F.Supp. 1434 (S.D.Ind.1995). Two years later, the district court modified this…