Insulting New Abortion Law Forces Women to Pay For Fetus Funerals
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/insulting-new-abortion-law-forces-women-to-pay-for-fetus-funeralsOn Thursday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed one of the most vicious anti-abortion bills in the country into law. It forbids women from getting abortions in cases of fetal disability, requires women to inter or cremate fetal remains, and a whole host of other fucked-up things.
On Thursday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed one of the most extreme anti-abortion bills in the country into law. In addition to some of the typical restrictions now favored in large swaths of the South and Midwest—medically unnecessary requirements that force clinics to shut down, for example—the bill, titled House Bill 1337, contains some uniquely disturbing provisions as well.
There are several parts of the unsettlingly comprehensive bill that different outlets have singled out: It requires women to pay for funeral services for their fetuses after getting an abortion or miscarrying. It forces women who want to get an abortion due to lethal fetal abnormalities to undergo counseling that encourages them to carry the doomed and potentially dangerous pregnancy to term. It forbids women from getting an abortion based on fetal disability. It prohibits sex-selective abortions—a fairly common justification for abortion restrictions, one for which there is "limited and inconclusive evidence," according to the Guttmacher Institute. In a statement, the National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) called the legislation "one of the most vicious omnibus anti-abortion bills the United States has ever seen."
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How is it possible to inflict these sorts of damaging laws on women?
FFS.
Us Hoosier taxpayers whom hate the law will have our tax dollars spent to defend this law in court for the next few years.
From a miscarriage? Are you fucking kidding me?
To have to do this after an abortion is bad enough, but a miscarriage...something your body does automatically? what if it's an early miscarriage and you don't even know it's happened until you flush it? Do you go to jail?
Yes, indeed. Incredible damage in less than four years.
Now we're fighting the latest battle compelling bathroom use by birth certificate gender designation
and prohibiting communities from addressing discrimination against LGBT people with local
ordinances--all under the guise of "protecting women and children" from peeping Tom's entering
a women's room in a dress because that's the logical consequence to these idiots from allowing
trans women to use a women's bathroom.
So they want to make trans women use the men's room and trans men use the women's room. No chance
for violence there. Nope.
These Republican politicians--and the people supporting them-- are a mean-spirited, hateful, ignorant, disrespectful bunch of bigots.
Women will die. 
It's a shit hole in the sticks. Backward assholes everywhere that think book learning is liberalism. ugh. I only go back there because of my 83 yr Mother and 54 yr old brother and his daughter. The rest of the family are tea party assholes. They think I'm a traitor because I moved to Europe. Gun toting bible thumping idiots. I can't believe some of those siblings came from my liberal Mother's womb.
How on earth are they even getting away with proposing such a measure? It's barbaric and hateful! 
And that's how we get bullshit laws like this. Fuck pro lifers, seriously.
I've lived in this state my entire life. I didn't and would NEVER vote for Pence. MANY other Hoosiers think as I do. This is not legislation we want! Don't throw me and MANY more like me under the bus! It's just that the majority of VOTING Hoosiers in the last go around voted Republican.
I see that changing this time. Some of my friends who are VERY reliable Republicans are truly getting sick of the fool. The anti-Pence rhetoric is really starting to swell in the circles I've seen. Pence's opponent in the last election, Democrat John Gregg, saw his support steadily rise during the last election. He was catching up as people began to see what a disaster Pence would be for the state. He just ran out of time. He's running again this time. And I think Gregg will do it this time. And it's VERY likely some people will ride his coattails.
So let me be the first (as far as I know) to say:
DIS-PENCE!!! Vote Gregg!
