In an era where every institution seems to be under siege from ideological forces, Indiana’s Supreme Court has become the latest target. This November, voters are being asked to retain Chief Justice Loretta Rush, Justice Mark Massa, and Justice Derek Molter on the Indiana Supreme Court. For the first time in recent memory, there’s an organized effort, largely from the Left, urging a “no” vote on their retention. Why? Because of their recent ruling in an abortion case that some have spun as stripping away rights. But this movement is driven by emotion and distortion, not reason. The truth is that the court did not strip away anyone’s rights — they deferred to the will of the people’s elected representatives in the state legislature. In doing so, the justices reinforced the very essence of what courts are supposed to do: interpret the law, not create it. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, it returned the issue of abortion to the states, a move that many constitutionalists — on both sides of the aisle — long believed was correct. The matter now rests with each state’s lawmakers. Indiana, like many other states, passed a law regulating abortion with certain exceptions. The justices on our Supreme Court didn’t overturn this law or uphold it based on their personal views about abortion. Instead, they did something far more principled — they upheld the legislature's right to decide the issue. In the court’s ruling, they acknowledged that the Indiana Constitution protects a woman’s right to abortion when her life or health is at risk, but they deferred to the state’s lawmakers in all other cases.

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