U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks on Thursday blocked the state of Texas from implementing rules that require fetal remains, whether from an abortion or a miscarriage, to be buried or cremated.

The regulation was set to go in effect on Monday. Sparks suspended it until Jan. 6, by which time he will have heard two days of testimony and made a decision about whether to block it permanently, as lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights have asked him to do.

Sparks initially requested the state to voluntarily delay implementing the rule until he could make a ruling and appeared agitated at the state’s refusal to do so.

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