Supreme Court Rules on
Indiana Abortion Restriction The Court upheld a block to an
Indiana law that allowed the
state to prohibit abortions motivated
solely by race, sex or disability. The court also ruled that
the portion of the law which
requires clinics to either cremate
or bury fetal remains will remain intact. Vice President Mike Pence
signed the Indiana bill into
law in 2016 when he was
governor of the state. Pence tweeted his
reaction to the ruling. Justice Thomas wrote that
though the Supreme Court
"declines to wade into these issues
today, we cannot avoid them forever." Thomas also compared
abortions based on race,
sex or disability to "the views of the
20th Century eugenic movement." The four other
conservative justices did
not join Thomas in his statements.
