INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s near-total abortion ban has survived a key legal challenge with the state Supreme Court rejecting a request that it take up the case.

The state’s highest court, in a 4-1 order issued Thursday, decided to let stand lower court rulings that upheld the constitutionality of the abortion restrictions approved by the Republican-dominated Legislature in 2022.

Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers argued in the challenge that the ban’s health exceptions allowing a...