CHICAGO (CBS) -- Lawmakers in Indiana will begin a special legislative session Monday to discuss the future of abortion in the Hoosier state. Republicans are proposing a near-total on the procedure, but activists say they won't let it pass without a fight.<\/p>\n
Crowds turned out Sunday in Highland, Indiana, to a pro-abortion rally, holding signs and chanting \"keep your laws off my body.\"<\/p>\n
Indiana's senate takes up the bill Monday. If approved, it moves to the house where it could become law by fall.<\/p>\n
Banning abortions at the time of implantation is defined in Indiana as when the fetus is implanted in the uterus.Members of the Republican-controlled Indiana Senate rolled out a bill that will dramatically tighten that state's abortion laws.<\/p>\n
However, there are exceptions, including if the life of the mother is at risk. <\/p>\n
\"It doesn't sit right with me that millions of reproductive rights were taken away. It's un-American. It's unpatriotic. To be quite frank, it's disgusting. I've been born and raised around a lot of powerful women in my life and I don't think I can stand idly by while rights are taken away,\" said student Noah Thomas.<\/p>\n
Planned Parenthood said before the end of the year it is expecting 30,000 women to come to Illinois for abortions, which would be an 80% jump from a typical year in Illinois.<\/p>\n
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