Texas enacts new abortion restrictions that include tissue disposal

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Wed Jun 7, 2017 | 5:11pm EDT

Texas enacts new abortion restrictions that include tissue disposal

By Jon Herskovitz | AUSTIN, TEXAS

The Texas governor has signed into law new abortion restrictions that include requiring abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetal tissue through burial or cremation, despite a block on the regulation already imposed by a U.S. court.

Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed what is known as Senate Bill 8 into law on Tuesday and it takes effect from Sept. 1. It also includes a ban on the most common method of second-trimester abortion.

Texas is the most-populous Republican-controlled state. Its abortion restrictions have often been fiercely defended by the state's lawyers and copied by other socially conservative states.

"Texas legislation on abortion is typically amplified because the state can be a beacon for restrictions nationwide," said Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research group.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-abortion-idUSKBN18Y32X

[MontanaMama]

1. Of course...

just another brick in the wall. Another step forward in the war on women. Something's gotta give. Unless it doesn't. Handmaid's Tale in real life.