Supreme Court Sidesteps Abortion Question in Ruling on Indiana Law

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an Indiana state law that required fetal remains to be buried or cremated. But it sidestepped a larger abortion question, turning down an effort to reinstate the law’s strict abortion limits.

The court’s decision, issued without briefing on the merits or oral arguments, was unsigned and just three pages long. It stressed that its decision upholding the part of the law concerning the disposal of fetal remains “does not implicate our cases applying the undue burden test to abortion regulations.”

Indiana, the court said,...