Ruling against the law....

Supreme Court won't review abortion law signed by Pence

By ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN and RACHANA PRADHAN

The Supreme Court Tuesday declined to take up a case challenging an Indiana law barring abortions based on a fetus' sex, race or disability, allowing a lower court's ruling against the law to stand.

But it upheld a separate Indiana measure requiring fetal remains to be buried or cremated, overturning a lower court ruling.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals last year ruled that the law restricting when and why an abortion could be performed, which Vice President Mike Pence signed in 2016 when he was the state's governor, violated the privacy rights of women.

That case is the latest abortion challenge the court's new conservative majority has passed up. However, it doesn’t indicate whether the court will eventually take up a challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling legalization abortion nationwide.