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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a law this year that mandated funerals for fetuses
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/121…
It’s no secret that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s reported pick for the Republican vice presidential nomination, opposes abortion rights. But this year he signed an anti-abortion bill that even some pro-life Republicans thought was too extreme, and which was blocked from going into effect late last month by a federal judge because it violated women’s right to choose.
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 law also banned abortion if the fetus had a "disability" like Down syndrome, which would have also denied women the right to end a pregnancy in the event of more serious fetal anomalies.
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.
- This almost reads like The Onion but this is your Republican Party in 2016.yuekit
- Remember according to Trump his VP will have control over foreign and domestic policy...yuekit
- Women should have a right to choose, but I don't get how abortion is looked as an empowering process and vilifying people who point out it kills a human being.IRNlun6
- This type of reaction is the polar opposite reaction to how abortion is treated like just another form of birth control.IRNlun6
- Abortion is a medical procedure, not a moral one. Let's leave it to the doctors, the professionals and the women to decide, not the bible.monospaced
- One might not like the idea of abortion, but that's okay. Lots of things people don't like, but in the end, it doesn't affect them in any way.monospaced
- It's absolutely a moral/ethical decision which is why they are limited to 24-26 weeks. Where the fetus could survive outside the womb and feel pain.IRNlun6
- I'm for women making the choice, but not in favor of looking at it like just a procedure. Fine line between clump of cell and a human.IRNlun6
- @IRN, that whole argument about surviving outside womb and feeling pain. That ONLY came from scientific knowledge, not the bible.monospaced
- so really, you're agreeing that the SCIENTIFIC conclusion that aborting a fetus within a timeframe is logical and ethical, right? how very "left" of youmonospaced
- the thing is, the right wants to abolish it completely, no matter what... and they're spent millions making sure it's a fucking nightmare for a woman to get onemonospaced