Texas to require aborted fetuses to be cremated or buried

Posted by | November 30, 2016 15:17 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

Texas is adding more pain to those who make the decision to abort.

The Texas health department finalized rules this week that will require fetal tissue to be cremated or buried, no matter the stage of development. The new regulations, which are scheduled to take effect on December 19, could dramatically increase the cost of an abortion for women without adding any clear public health or safety benefits.

Other states have proposed similar measures, and Indiana actually managed to pass one that was later blocked in court. But if legal challenges don’t block the new rules in the next few weeks, Texas will be the first state to actually enact such requirements.

“These new restrictions reveal the callous indifference that Texas politicians have toward women,” David Brown, senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement Monday after the new regulations were finalized. “Forcing a woman to pay for a burial after she ends a pregnancy or experiences a miscarriage is not just absurd — it is an unnecessary burden and an intrusion on her personal beliefs.”

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6 responses to Texas to require aborted fetuses to be cremated or buried

  1. whatthe46 November 30th, 2016 at 16:10

    abbott and the rest of the republiklans are out of control. they have absolutely NO right to do this and it should go to the Supreme Court.

  2. Carla Akins November 30th, 2016 at 16:30

    What is the undue burden standard?

    The test, first developed in the late 19th century, is widely used in American constitutional law. In short, the Undue Burden standard states that the Legislature cannot make a particular law that is too burdensome or restrictive of one’s fundamental rights.

    **I can only assume that Texas lawmakers are not allowed access to Google.

    • amersham1046 November 30th, 2016 at 19:01

      In Texas a google is a whole lot of geese

  3. anothertoothpick November 30th, 2016 at 16:52

    Welcome to Texas all you cowboys.

    Spill your seed on the ground and we won’t have any problems.

  4. StoneyCurtisll November 30th, 2016 at 19:23

    I thought this was already found unconstitutional…(could be wrong)

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