So In Texas Women Will Have To Schedule A Funeral Even For Miscarriage??

[TheMastersNemesis]

Boy are we going down the shit hole. What are women thinking who vote GOP and Trump?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. It boggles the mind

n/t

[randr]

2. Bastards should be made to hold a funeral

every time they jerk off.

[Ilsa]

3. Only if the miscarriage is soon enough that

You don't need a D&C to scrape out the holy conceptus. If the miscarriage is more like a bad period, then the holy conceptus will be flushed away, inanimately clinging to toklet paper.

[emulatorloo]

4. So much for "limited government"

Gop'ers are such fucking hypocrites. But we already knew that.

[GWC58]

10. They are limited government!

At least when it's something they agree on. Guns? Small! A woman's choice? Big, over reaching, government! The choice to put what you choose in your body, such as cannabis? Big, intrusive, over reaching government!! I hope I'm wrong, but after 20 January I expect to see the heavy hand of law enforcement to come down, and come down hard!

[Lotusflower70]

5. Enforcement

Who is going to be enforcing this garbage? And where can I donate to help the women? Are PP and Naral setting aside funds for this?

[RKP5637]

6. I seriously doubt the US will survive over the coming years as a democracy. Given the strong

foothold the republicans now have and the weakness of democrats, they will creep into every corner.

[Siwsan]

7. I am not aware of any federal or state mandated ceremony for any burial or cremation

These people are just plain crazy. They don't give a rip about anything but humiliating and punishing the woman.

[HAB911]

8. law exempts women who abort or miscarry at home

The law exempts women who abort or miscarry at home, after all. If a woman starts to miscarry at home, but knows she may be forced to pay for funeral services if she goes to a hospital for help, she might stay at home and hope that the failing pregnancy works itself out on its own.

There’s already significant evidence that a large number of Texas women are turning to DIY abortion methods rather than going to a doctor. The most popular method is using misoprostol, a drug that can induce miscarriage, either bought over the counter in neighboring Mexico or bought from a black-market dealer who buys in bulk and brings it over the border. While misoprostol is relatively safe and effective, women who take it still run the danger of an incomplete miscarriage and infection, which is why doctors would prefer it be taken under medical supervision.

But if going to a doctor means you need to hire funeral services for what looks, to the naked eye, exactly like the tissue from a heavy menstrual period, many women may be tempted to go the black-market route.

It appears there’s no limit on how bizarre Texas conservatives are willing to go, if it means making abortion more fraught or miserable for women. Now the anti-abortion crusaders are willing to punish women who suffer unwanted miscarriages, if it gets the zealots closer to their goal.

[Demsrule86]

11. This can kill you.

I once had a miscarriage...had the misfortune to live in Georgia and had a right to life doctor...he waited for bloodwork...I hemorrhaged at home and was rushed to the hospital where this doctor put me in a room by myself with no treatment ...still waiting for the blood work. Luckily, hubs came home from his trip and rushed to the hospital where he found me unconscious in a pool of blood. He fired the doctor and a young resident saved my life. It is worth noting that under current law, I would have died most likely...untold amounts of blood, three weeks in the hospital and I could not have other children. I had to get a hepatitis and aids test every six months...still can't give blood.

[Paladin]

9. I expect (and will support) massive ignoring of this ridiculous law.

Hell, even Texas funeral directors are against this measure by the Christian Taliban.

[Initech]

12. Stockholm Syndrome?

[Shoonra]

13. Abusive even by Texas standards

Many religions common in America do not regard a miscarriage as person entitled to a funeral or the attention due a living person who died. By requiring this sort of attention to a miscarriage, Texas is imposing the strictures of a very few religions on everyone, and at enormous expense.

Even at a pet cemetery a cremation costs well above $100, usually in the neighborhood of $200.

Apart from the very considerable expense and inconvenience (and stress), falling on a woman whose just lost her pregnancy, keep in mind that the large number of miscarriages contrasted to the small number of crematories could lead to a logjam of fetuses awaiting cremation, a considerable biomedical risk to the general community.

There is already a serious problem of too many women failing to get adequate prenatal care, but this law will actually encourage more women to avoid seeing a doctor for prenatal care, for fear that even if the pregnancy is unsuccessful the doctor's report will cause them devastating expense.

[TheMastersNemesis]

14. Women Are Set Up For Investigation And Prosecution Over End Of Their Pregnancy.