Texas Fetal Burial Proposal Would Add Thousands to the Cost of an Abortion

[cali]

And it's not just abortions. Miscarriages as well.

This is the worst of the worst as far as TRAP laws go.


A funeral services consumer advocacy group says a state proposal to require the cremation or burial of aborted fetuses could mean an approximate $2,000 increase to the cost of an abortion.

On July 1, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission quietly slipped a proposed rule into the Texas Register that would require fetal remains, whether as a result of an abortion or a miscarriage, to be buried or cremated instead of being disposed of in a sanitary landfill or incinerated.


This proposal first surfaced four days after the Supreme Court ruled that Texas' House Bill 2, which increased regulatory burdens on abortion clinics, causing many in the state to close, was unconstitutional. The Center for Reproductive Rights, which argued against House Bill 2, has called the nature of the fetal burial proposal, which could take effect in September, a political maneuver that seeks to undermine women's rights that will likely result in more costly litigation for the state.

According to the Center, the state spent over $1 million fighting the challenge to House Bill 2. And in a recent letter sent to state health officials, the Center said the state will most certainly spend more taxpayer dollars if the fetal burial rule takes effect. “Texas politicians are at it again, inserting their personal beliefs into the health care decisions of Texas women,” Stephanie Toti, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a press release. “The Center for Reproductive Rights is prepared to take further legal action to ensure that Texas women can continue to access abortion and other reproductive healthcare without interference by politicians.”

read:http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2016/08/05/texas-fetal-burial-proposal-would-add-thousands-to-the-cost-of-an-abortion

[cali]

1. kick. this is so cruel and so disturbing.

[salin]

2. This was in the repugnant antiabortion law in Indiana that was stayed by the Supreme Court

How would this even work? Would all pregnant have to register with the state? Who would do the registering, the doctor? Who then checks to verify if the baby made it to term and was born, was aborted or miscarried?

[cali]

3. It couldn't work effectively in the case of early miscarriages

But in the case of abortions? Yeah, they could track induced surgical abortions, for sure. And they could even track abortions induced my RU-487 which I believe is used during the first 50 days of gestation.

This is the size of a 7 week old fetus:

Week 7


Baby's Length: <.25-.33 in.

Baby's Weight: <.25 oz.

Baby's Size: Coffee bean

http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/stages/fetal-development/how-big-is-your-baby-in-first-trimester/?slideId=43051

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

5. Isn't that just a prescription and women take that at home?

So are woman supposed to collect up all the discharge and save that for cremation? How fun that would be. Maybe we should cremate our used tampons and maxi-pads too and have a funeral every time we menstruate just in case it was an early miscarriage.

[salin]

7. Hence the tampons for Pence movement in Indiana.

Lot's of women mailed feminine hygiene products to the Governor's office after he signed the heinous bill into law.

[LynneSin]

11. In that case shouldn't every used condom get a proper burial too

[salin]

12. XD Too funny!

[Catbird]

4. A really bad idea

I had miscarriages. Early miscarriages. The kind where you are surrounded by blood. Bloody clots. Blood on sheets. Blood on towels. Blood on rags. Blood in the toilet. Blood on your body. Nothing to bury. Nothing recognizable as human. Nothing to mourn except dreams. It's hard to imagine a crueler and less productive law than this one.

[cali]

6. I'm so sorry. Yes, it's astoundingly cruel.

[Lars39]

8. Undue hardship

[Vinca]

9. I hope they don't find out how many pregnancies spontaneously end because the embryo

doesn't attach itself to the uterine wall. They might have all women holding funerals over their toilets and tampons on a monthly basis.

[riderinthestorm]

10. Never fails to astonish me at how low the pro-life folks are willing to go.

After all these years I shouldn't be surprised but my heart hurts thinking of the cruelty of people who dream this shit up.

What's crazy bad is how successful they've been in crafting legislation like this that's perpetually eroding reproductive choice.

K&R

[salin]

13. They must live very punitive lives.

They are brutal.

[cali]

14. A lot of it is due not so much to legislation as regulations

This truly is unthinkably cruel.

[Initech]

15. And the worst part is that they hide behind religion.

As if they own it. No they don't. And Jesus would hate them if he saw some of this shit.

[malaise]

16. Follow the money

This is just another snake oil trick for money. They're waiting to make a business of this. Fuck them all.

[cali]

17. No. This is all about limiting abortion rights.

The folks who would make money off it, oppose it.