Court reinstates Indiana's abortion burial, cremation law
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A federal appeals court has reinstated an Indiana law adopted in 2016 that requires abortion clinics to either bury or cremate fetal remains. The ruling released Monday overturns an Indiana judge’s decision in September that the law infringed upon the religious and free speech rights of people who d…
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A federal appeals court has reinstated an Indiana law adopted in 2016 that requires abortion clinics to either bury or cremate fetal remains. The ruling released Monday overturns an Indiana judge’s decision in September that the law infringed upon the religious and free speech rights of people who d…
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed on Monday the reinstatement of a 2016 Indiana law requiring abortion clinics to either bury or cremate fetal remains.
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit upheld Indiana’s fetal burial rule, which requires cremation or burial for fetal tissue after abortions, ruling that the law “need not imply anything” about the personhood of fetuses. After all, the judges reason, pets are buried or cremated all the time.
