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.
