Article snippet: The Supreme Court avoided making a major ruling on abortion Tuesday, even as conservative Justice MORE warned it would not be able to put off the inevitable for much longer. The court handed down a pair of rulings on an Indiana abortion law — letting stand one part of the statute that requires remains from an abortion or miscarriage be buried, but keeping in place a lower court ruling that struck down the ban on abortions based on the fetus’s gender, race or disabilities. The decisions come as Republican-led state legislatures have approved a series of laws in recent months aimed at getting the high court’s conservative majority to potentially overturn the Roe v. Wade decision now that Justices MORE, are on the bench. The rightward shift has abortion-rights supporters nervous and abortion opponents hoping the court will hand down a ruling that severely restricts the procedure or makes it illegal. Thomas, in an opinion already being touted by prominent conservatives, agreed with the Supreme Court’s decision to let lower courts decide first on a part of the Indiana law stopping abortions based on the fetus’s sex, gender or disability. But he said the court will have to take up abortion laws in the near future, writing that he was concerned about the possibility of abortions being used for “eugenics.” “Although the court declines to wade into these issues today, we cannot avoid them forever,” Thomas wrote. “Having created the constitutional right to an abortion, thi... Link to the full article to read more