McConchie, of the AUL, told the Guardian the group had drafted a model “Dignified Final Disposition Act” and was tweaking it in response to the clandestine videos. “We’re working with legislators. There’s a lot of interest.”
The proposed law would mandate that fetal remains be cremated or buried. If cremated, they would have to be cremated separately from medical waste and a county medical examiner would have to authorise the cremation.
The act would also require fetal death certificates for “each fetal death after delivery, miscarriage or abortion”. A stillborn child would need a state-issued “certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth”.
The AUL has helped pro-life legislators restrict abortion availability in many states in what has been dubbed a “stealth war” on abortion.
If you guessed this is in response to those doctored Planned Parenthood video give yourself a gold star. (By the way according to this article there are about a dozen more of those on the way.)
Can you imagine being a young woman who had a miscarriage early in their first trimester who then had to fill out paperwork to obtain a death certificate for something the size of your thumbnail?
And how many women have miscarriages and never even know it? Would they be breaking this new law if they were simply ignorant of the fact that they needed this paperwork?
I have heard of draconian laws before, but this one takes the cake.
Somebody please remind me again, why do women continue to vote Republican?
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