On Oct. 12, a petition for certiorari (
full text) was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in
Commissioner of the Indiana State Department of Health v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc., (cert. filed, Oct. 12, 2018). The petition presents two questions for the Court's review:
1. Whether a State may require health care facilities to dispose of fetal remains in the same manner as other human remains, i.e., by burial or cremation.
2. Whether a State may prohibit abortions motivated solely by the race, sex, or disability of the fetus and require abortion doctors to inform patients of the prohibition.
The 7th Circuit in an opinion (
full text) in April held the provisions of Indiana's abortion laws unconstitutional.
Rewire News reports on the petition for review.
