{"id":194122,"date":"2019-01-08T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194122"},"modified":"2019-01-08T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:13:01","slug":"supreme-court-indiana-discriminatory-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-indiana-discriminatory-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court debates taking on Indiana ban on discriminatory abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Life Site News<\/a>)\u00a0The U.S. Supreme Court privately deliberated Friday over whether to take up the first major abortion case of the year, which concerns Indiana\u2019s efforts to prevent girls, minorities, or children with Down syndrome from being deliberately targeted by abortion.\u00a0Before leaving office to become President Donald Trump\u2019s running mate, then-Gov. Mike Pence signed House Enrolled Act 1337. It banned abortions sought specifically because of a preborn baby\u2019s race, sex, ethnicity, or potential disabilities. It also required abortionists to bury or cremate fetal remains rather than treating them as medical waste.<\/p>\n

Abortion advocates sued, arguing<\/a> in the words of the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s\u00a0(ACLU)\u00a0Ken Falk that every woman has an \u201cabsolute right as part of her privacy interests\u201d to use abortion to eliminate children she considers undesirable. A district judge sided with Planned Parenthood, and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld their injunction.<\/p>\n

In October, Indiana\u2019s Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill asked<\/a> the Supreme Court to consider HEA 1337, arguing that the \u201cright to abortion declared by our Supreme Court protects only the decision not to bear a child at all, not a right to decide which child to bear,\u201d\u00a0and stressing that \u201cour nation knows only too well the bitter fruits of such discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n