Judge: Indiana can't enforce abortion burial, cremation law

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Judge: Indiana can’t enforce abortion burial, cremation law

September 28, 2022

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has barred Indiana from enforcing a 2016 law’s provisions that require abortion clinics to either bury or cremate fetal remains, finding that they violate the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young ruled that the law’s requirements infringe on the religious and free speech rights of people who do not believe aborted fetuses deserve the same treatment as deceased people.

“The Constitution prohibits ‘mechanisms, overt or disguised, designed to persecute or oppress a religion or its practices.’ The fetal disposition requirements are contrary to that principle,” Young wrote in Monday’s decision, which granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs who had sued the state.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a defendant in the lawsuit, said Tuesday that his office will appeal the ruling, The Indianapolis Star reported.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-lawsuits-indiana-indianapolis-348eb91dc768ea4e00762f4b2eb766f7

[Walleye]

1. Every time I think these people can't get any sicker. Cruelty is the point