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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge blocked a new Indiana law Thursday that bans abortions sought because of a fetus’ genetic abnormalities.

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. The law was set to take effect Friday.

Indiana and North Dakota are the only states with laws that ban abortions sought due to fetal genetic abnormalities, such as Down syndrome, or because of the race, sex or ancestry of a fetus.

The lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana also challenges the law’s provision requiring that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated. Planned Parenthood currently disposes remains by incineration, as with other medical tissue.

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