rule on the other provision of the bill. 
   The bill as passed banned abortions which were based on sex, race, or disability. Just as the state does not allow discrimination on these factors for born people, Indiana wanted to protect the child in the womb from such discrimination.  But the 7^th Circuit District Court struck down that provision and the Supreme Court simply allowed that decision to stand, without hearing arguments on the question.  Justice Clarence Thomas, however, wrote a response to the decision expressing his belief that “Given the potential for abortion to become a tool of eugenic manipulation, the [c]ourt will soon need to confront the constitutionality of laws like Indiana’s…. Enshrining the constitutional right to an abortion based solely on the race, sex, or disability of an unborn child, as Planned Parenthood advocates, would constitutionalize the views of the 20th Century eugenics movement.” Justice Thomas pointed out that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was well-known to be an advocate of eugenics to eliminate “unfit” segments of society. Justice Thomas also noted that “Even after World War II, future Planned Parenthood President Alan Guttmacher and other abortion advocates endorsed abortion for eugenic reasons and promoted it as a means of controlling the population and improving its quality…”.  Unfortunately, no other justices signed on to Justice Thomas’ statement. 

             See https://www.liveaction.org/news/justice-clarence-thomas-abortion-eugenics/