“The law did something truly bizarre. It would have basically forced women to seek funerary services for a fetus — whether she’d had an abortion or a miscarriage, and no matter how far along the pregnancy was. The law Pence backed would have required all fetal tissue to be cremated or buried, an unprecedented measure in state law.
The wording of the burial provision meant that technically, even if a woman had a miscarriage at eight weeks of pregnancy at home, she would have to keep the blood and tissue, take it to a hospital, and have it buried or cremated by a funeral home.”
Okay but this is actually fucking terrifying if you read up on it.
Besides the obvious scare tactic, this would have driven the cost of abortion up sky-high and forced clinics to shut down. The health care facilities were going to be the ones responsible for the burial while the patient was liable for the costs associated with the burial. This would make abortion costs nearly impossible for lower income women to pay.
Not only that but most clinics don’t have the resources to handle these measures as the bill would also have an admitting privileges requirement with hospitals. Something that most clinics won’t be able to do because they don’t meet the requirements. (Ex: hospitals often require X amount of patients admitted from the clinic a year, abortions rarely require hospitalization so they don’t meet the minimum number.) This would mean clinics can be legally shut down for good.
There’s more to this bill too, like if the fetus shows abnormalities that are possibly fatal to the fetus or woman, then they are forced to undergo counseling to encourage them to carry the pregnancy to term, despite the danger, and completely prohibit them from having the abortion. The worst thing is that many states are now considering similar bills
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a law this year that mandated funerals for fetuses
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