Supreme Court Denies Review in Indiana Fetal Remains Lawsuit

An Indiana law requiring abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains will stay on the books, after the US Supreme Court Monday turned down a chance to review a decision that left it in place.

Two women who’ve had legal abortions asked the nation’s top court to overturn the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s ruling, arguing that the law adversely affects their religious or moral beliefs in violation of the First Amendment’s free exercise and speech clauses.

Indiana’s “cremate-or-bury directive” applies to abortion providers, so it doesn’t require abortion patients to “violate any belief, religious or ...