Indiana Court Rules Abortion is a Legally-Protected Religious Practice

For years we’ve been told to cool it with the comparisons of abortion to ancient paganism. But now, an Indiana judge has ruled that abortion is a legally-protected religious ritual.

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by Jeff Maples
March 29, 2026

For years now, we’ve been told to cool it with the comparisons of abortion to ancient paganism. Stop invoking Molech. Stop talking about sacrifice. Stop saying that modern society is quietly reenacting the most perverse rituals of the ancient world. We’re told, even by our church leaders, that it’s “rhetorical excess” from people who take the Bible too seriously and modernity not seriously enough.

And yet here we are. A judge in Indiana has now ruled that there can be a religious right to abortion. Not metaphorically or rhetorically. Not even as a philosophical analogy.

Literally.

In a March 5 order out of the Marion Superior Court (pasted below), Judge Christina Klineman granted summary judgment to a group of plaintiffs — two anonymous women and an advocacy group called “Hoosier Jews for Choice.”