Indiana Tried To Raise Ethical Challenges to Abortion, but Will Probably Fail

Indiana’s new abortion law is both on trend with the rest of the country and totally distinctive. In March, the state legislature passed a law that primarily does two things: First, it prohibits abortions at any stage that are sought on the basis of the fetus’s sex, race, or other identity factors, or because of potential genetic abnormalities. Second, it requires that fetal remains are buried or cremated, rather than disposed as medical waste.

Planned Parenthood, the major abortion provider in the state, challenged the law, along with the American Civil Liberties Union. On Thursday, a district-court judge, Tanya Walton Pratt, blocked the law from going into effect, which was set to happen on July 1. Her decision suggests that Planned Parenthood will eventually succeed in its challenge to the law, part of a recent trend of federal courts striking down laws that seek to regulate abortion procedures and target abortion providers. If her predictions are correct, the courts will get to sidestep significant bioethical questions in considering this case, essentially because Indiana’s law is written too vaguely. But that doesn’t mean the questions are going away....
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