INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana house voted Thursday to approve a bill that would permit more medical providers to deny women care based on an ethical, moral or religious objections to abortion.

The legislation now returns to the Senate to determine if that chamber consents to a technical change made by the House.

The bill expands Indiana’s conscience-protection statute for medical professionals who don’t want to perform an abortion or participate in any procedure that results in an abortion.

That includes prescribing, administering or dispensing an abortion-inducing drug.

The new measure would extend that to nurses, physician assistants and pharmacists.

State law already authorizes physicians, hospital employees and health clinic staffers to opt out of abortion-related health care.