Supreme Court upholds Indiana law forcing abortion providers to bury or cremate fetuses

Pro-choice protesters.
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The Supreme Court has upheld one half of an Indiana abortion law and sealed the end of the other.

On Tuesday, the Court declined to hear an appeal on an earlier court case that invalidated Indiana's ban on abortions that women have for so-called "discriminatory" reasons. But the court also upheld the rest of the Indiana law mandating abortion providers bury or cremate fetal remains, creating a "compromise" that keeps abortion "off its docket for now," The Washington Post reports.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.