“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.”
I’m still mind blown
What….the fuck is this….
iirc the terminology of bill also made it so that abortions were only justified on certain terms like if the fetus was of an undesirable race or could have a disability. i don’t know any women who have actually had to do this yet and bury remains, i haven’t heard any cases of it being implemented yet. but i can’t imagine. like i can’t even imagine how painful that would be. this is also coming on the heels of purvi patel, a woman who miscarried at home and was put on trial for feticide in indiana. it is a dangerous state to be pregnant in.
(via taylor-ruth)