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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Weissmann finds that the trial court properly held that Hoosier Jews for Choice have standing in claims challenging state abortion restrictions on religious grounds because the Hoosier Jews demonstrated the restrictions have caused them harm, as they have been forced to alter sexual and/or reproductive behavior; meanwhile, the court properly held that their inability to access abortions infringed their religious freedoms, as one anonymous plaintiff's beliefs include that "life begins when a child takes their first breath after birth" and that a pregnant woman's life "must take precedence over the potential for life embodied in a fetus," while another anonymous plaintiff, who lacks affiliations with a particular religion and does not believe in a single god, believes in a "supernatural force or power in the universe that connects all humans" and that "we are endowed with bodily autonomy." The claims may proceed as a class action, but the court's injunction must be narrowed so as not to allow valid applications of the restrictions to be blocked. Affirmed.