Supporters speak in favor of House Bill 1058 [Video]

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill making its way through the state legislature deals with one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in women.

“It’s a taboo subject,” said Heather Pirowski as she sat in front of lawmakers on the Senate’s Health and Provider Services Committee Wednesday morning.

Pirowski was there to talk about breast cancer, a subject she’s not afraid to discuss, even in front of some of the most important people in Indiana.

That’s because this wife and mother of two sons, has work to do.

She knows she’s likely living on borrowed time.

Not an easy thing to face, when she considers her husband and sons, one in high school and one in college.

“Odds are, I will not seem them graduate,” Pirowski told lawmakers, explaining that in 2020 she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast …