A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked new Texas requirements for aborted infants to be buried or cremated.

Several abortion clinics sued to permanently block the rules, which the state finalized last month. They require fetal tissue to be interred through burial, entombment or cremation and ban it from being put in a sanitary landfill, where medical providers typically dispose of fetal material.

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