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Justice Clarence Thomas: Abortion Could Become A Tool Of Racists, Eugenicists

Emily Zanotti

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a stinging concurrence Tuesday, in the case of a comprehensive Indiana law greatly restricting the reasons a woman can obtain an abortion and requiring that all aborted babies be either cremated or buried.

Thomas agreed with the Court’s 7-2 ruling that Indiana was free to require medical facilities to provide a dignified burial or cremation for children aborted under their watch, but dissented from the Supreme Court’s decision not to rule on the part of the Indiana law that banned abortions done on the basis of gender, race, or disability.

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