Supreme Court leaves in place Indiana’s law mandating humane burial of aborted children

The United States Supreme Court ruled on May 1 that it will not hear a challenge to an Indiana law that requires abortion facilities to bury or cremate fetal remains. With the decision, the state law stands.

The law, which was adopted in 2016, was challenged in a 2020 lawsuit brought by the Women’s Med abortion facility in Indianapolis, as well as two women who obtained abortions at the facility. The Associated Press previously reported that in the suit, the abortion business “argued Indiana’s requirements caused both abortion and miscarriage patients ‘shame, stigma, anguish, and anger’ because they ‘send the unmistakable message that someone who has had an abortion or miscarriage is responsible for the death of a person’.”

In response to the lawsuit, the law was blocked in September 2022 by a judge who ruled that it violated the religious freedom and free speech of people who do not believe that a preborn child has the same rights as a born person. A federal judge reinstated the law in November 2022. The plaintiffs had appealed to the Supreme Court as a final effort to get the law overturned.

Attorney General Todd Rokita praised the court’s decision to let the law stand. “The Supreme Court’s ruling will allow our state to treat unborn, innocent babies with the dignity they rightly deserve,” he tweeted. “My office will continue fighting to protect the right to life while the radical left dismisses this invaluable gift.”

Under the law, abortion facilities must humanely bury or cremate the remains of the children they kill during abortion procedures. Live Action News has previously shared some of the horrific ways in which abortion businesses treat the remains of aborted children. Investigations have revealed the bodies of preborn children being placed in garbage disposals and flushed through the sewer system, thrown away in landfills or dumpsters, or even stored in freezers.

While abortion proponents often fight humane burial laws with the claim that they infringe upon the rights of women, in reality, these laws force the industry to concede to the dignity and humanity of the children it kills.

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