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Last edited Tue May 28, 2019, 01:30 PM - Edit history (1)
The court, however, did say it would allow part of the law that requires clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains to take effect.
The fact that the court decided not to take up the more controversial provision of the Indiana law suggests that there is not a current appetite on the court to move aggressively to question the court's core abortion precedents of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood. Still, supporters of abortion rights will be disappointed and worried that the justices allowed the fetal tissue provision to go into effect.
The law was signed in March 2016 by then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. It was blocked last year from going into effect by the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/supreme-court-abortion-indiana/index.html
http://www.us-funerals.com/funeral-articles/funerals-and-cremations-in-indiana.html
Vinca
(50,342 posts)All things considered, it was kind of a silly thing for Indiana to put in their bill. The other part of the bill was far more important.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)And that means paying the costs incurred by the funeral home.
http://www.us-funerals.com/funeral-articles/funerals-and-cremations-in-indiana.html
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)It will also prevent the donation of fetal tissue from abortions from being used for research, being that it must be cremated or interred.
Vinca
(50,342 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Not surprised they refused to take it up at this time. Unlike this writer, many believe it's inevitable that the people being appointed will eventually move to criminalize abortion, and perhaps much more, such as some kinds of contraception -- or all contraception.
Incredible as it sounds, the "right to privacy" that underlies all this was only "inferred" in the 1970s after CT outlawed contraception. In a first decision the justices decided married people had a right to use it, and to not have the police tossing their homes looking for it. It took a second case to decide everyone did. Some born since then may think that was back in the stone ages, and it sure sounds like it, but it wasn't. And now the same as then, a right to control one's reproduction, including the right to have children at all, is still stated nowhere in the constitution, only inferred from various places.