Posted on 05/28/2019 1:57:49 PM PDT by Steve1999
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Indiana's law requiring abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains, but left lower court rulings intact that invalidated a broader measure that would prevent a woman from having an abortion based on a fetus's gender, race or genetic disorder. Passed in 2016 and signed by then-Gov. Mike Pence, the law prohibited what the state called discriminatory abortions — those sought because of characteristics of the fetus, including gender, race or a diagnosis of Down syndrome or other congenital condition. Supporters of the measure said the law responded to medical developments that were not contemplated at the time of Roe v. Wade. Lower courts blocked that discriminatory provision, and the Supreme Court left those rulings intact, which means the state cannot enforce that part of the law.
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Who? Kavanaugh? Roberts? Who is the culprit?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is upholding an Indiana law that requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same way as human remains. But the justices are staying out of the debate over a broader provision that would prevent a woman in Indiana from having an abortion based on gender, race or disability.
The court is splitting 7-2 in allowing Indiana to enforce the fetal remains measure that had been blocked by a federal appeals court. The justices say in an unsigned opinion that the case does not involve limits on a woman’s right to an abortion.
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
Military/Veterans?
As to that part of the decision (to deny review of the lower court's ruling, which had struck down the law against sex-selection abortions), it was an unsigned order to deny review; only Justice Thomas noted a dissent from that part of the decision.
What does sex selective abortion have to do with a "woman's reproductive health" ? With a woman's "right to privacy"? It's a form of eugenics, designer babies.
WOW! This was the lede story on NPR news at 4pm EDT today. The report lasted, estimate, around one minute, a long time in a 5 minute newscast.
It takes only 4 votes to grant cert. (i.e., to hear the case), but it takes 5 votes to overturn the lower court. My guess is that there were 4 votes to grant cert., but the conservatives who want to overrule Roe didn't vote to grant cert. because they were afraid there weren't 5 votes to overturn Roe.
This doesn’t do anything about abortion, but it does kill what appears to be a major profit center for Planned Parenthood.
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