Texas Republicans want aborted fetal tissue taken to funeral homes

[DonViejo]

Texas is proposing new regulations for abortion providers that would require them to dispose of aborted fetal tissue either through burial or cremation, saying the measures are intended to preserve human dignity.

Abortion rights groups contend the regulations could help deter abortions in the socially conservative state. They would force providers to seek disposal through crematoriums or funeral homes, and those business could face a backlash if they are seen as being aligned with abortion providers

The regulations were entered into the July 1 Texas Register and could take effect as early as September. They come after the state was handed a stinging defeat by the U.S. Supreme Court last month when it struck down the state’s restrictions on abortion clinics that led many to cease operations.

“The Health and Human Services Commission developed new rules to ensure Texas law maintains the highest standards of human dignity,” said Bryan Black, a spokesman for the commission. The commission will decide whether to adopt the regulations after conducting a 30-day comment period. The regulations eliminate other means of disposal that include grinding and discharging into a sanitary sewer system as well as disinfecting and then disposing in a sanitary landfill.

Republican Governor Greg Abbott said he wants lawmakers, when they meet next year, to make the proposed regulations state law.

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[scscholar]

1. That will create so much profit for funeral homes!

So much profit. Republicans are all about that.

[Wounded Bear]

7. And IIRC, there are prominent Repubs...

neck deep in that industry, protecting corruption and scams.

Tom Delay, anyone?

[puffy socks]

2. More usurping R v W

If these aborted remains really meant so much to these people why have they not insisted on taking miscarriages to the funeral homes all these years?

[liberal N proud]

3. Who is going to pay for them?

I had a right to life group call my house last night, I asked them, what about after that child is born? Who is going to pay for the care of this life you so desperately want to save?

Click!

They don't want to pay for these things, they just want to force people to their mold.

[riversedge]

4. " law maintains the highest standards of human dignity,”--oh, sure. Open carry of weapons of war

being carried in grocery stores, on the streets, maintains that directive!! damn!

[katsy]

5. If they gave a shit

let the pro-lifers pay for it. No changes to the law necessary. No tax exemptions either. Let them collect the tissue & pay for it.

[Runningdawg]

6. We are familar with these types of laws in Oklahoma

Another "look at me I am sooooo Christian, I am more Christian than my opponents" They do this all the time, more in election years and their little bills written on the back of cocktail napkins are summarily found to be unconstitutional. The point is never to pass a bill, only to prove who is the best Christian by writing one. Welcome to politics in Oklahoma.