Sharp Disagreements at Fetal Remains Hearing

[TexasTowelie]

In the aftermath of a car accident in 2014, Denee Booker was told by her doctor that the child she was carrying had died in utero.

To avoid complications, she agreed with her doctor’s suggestion to remove the fetus instead of waiting for it to “naturally pass,” Booker told state health officials during a Thursday hearing on a proposed state rule that would require the cremation or burial of fetal remains.

“That I would have had to take or make either of those decisions is mind-boggling and terrifying,” Booker said of the proposed requirements. “I can’t imagine how much worse that would’ve made my situation.”

Booker was among dozens who testified on a pending rule change that prohibits hospitals, abortion clinics and other health care facilities from disposing of fetal remains in sanitary landfills, instead allowing only cremation or interment of all remains — regardless of the period of gestation — even in instances of miscarriages.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/04/sharp-disagreements-fetal-remains-hearing/

[Warpy]

1. Men really hate it when a woman tells them they don't know everything

Don't expect those ridiculous right wing males to budge an inch, nor the sanctimonious bible banging women, either.

This will have to be challenged and this is why we can't allow a Republican to pick the next USSC nominees.