The judge’s action, which is temporary, arose from a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction sought by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which argued that the law was unconstitutional and violated women’s privacy rights. Planned Parenthood currently disposes of remains by incineration, as with other medical tissue. ( Mykal McEldowney / Associated Press File Photo )INDIANAPOLIS—A federal judge blocked an Indiana law Thursday that would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus’s genetic abnormalities, saying that the state does not have the authority to limit a woman’s reasons for ending a pregnancy. Crowds protest the law in Indiana in April.

Source: thestar June 30, 2016 19:43 UTC