“The Chicago-based appellate court held that the dignified-disposal provision was unconstitutional because it was literally “irrational,”
Supreme Court Upholds Law Allowing for Burial of Unborn, Punts on Sex-Selection Abortions
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/28/supreme-court-law-burial-unborn-punts-sex-selection-abortions/“WASHINGTON, DC – States may dispose in a dignified manner of the bodies of unborn children who died during abortion, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Monday, while declining to weigh in on sex-selection abortions until another federal appeals court weighs in on such a law.
The bodies of unborn children are typically disposed of in the same manner as “infectious waste.” Indiana lawmakers wanted to address that issue in 2016, and then Gov.-Mike Pence signed a law providing for disposing of the remains of the unborn by either cremation or burial. The Indiana statute also prohibited a woman’s aborting an unborn baby solely because of that child’s race, sex, or disability.
Planned Parenthood immediately sued, and after a federal trial court weighed in, the case went to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
The Chicago-based appellate court held that the dignified-disposal provision was unconstitutional because it was literally “irrational,” and further held that the selective-abortion ban violated the right to abortion declared by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade and reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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