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Supreme Court upholds Indiana law on handling of fetal remains, stresses undue burden not at issue

May 28, 2019

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law that bars abortion providers from incinerating fetal remains with infectious waste.

The Indiana law allowed abortion providers to cremate or bury the remains, according to SCOTUSblog, the National Law Journal, USA Today and the Washington Post. Vice President Mike Pence, then the governor of Indiana, had signed the provision into law in 2016.

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