Ohio governor signs bill requiring women to choose burial or cremation of aborted fetal tissue
Source: The Hill
BY JOSEPH CHOI - 12/31/20 04:29 PM EST
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R ) signed a bill Wednesday that will require any aborted tissue to be either buried or cremated, leaving the decision to either the female patient or the clinic and penalizing whoever fails to decide.
The bill signed on Wednesday also states, the pregnant woman is responsible for the costs related to the final disposition of the fetal remains at the chosen location.
Those who are found to have failed to meet the requirements defined in the bill are subject to face, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If cremation is chosen as the form of disposal then the remains must either be placed in a "grave, crypt, or niche" or scattered in a "dignified manner."
Laurel Powell of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio told local ABC-affiliate News 5 the law was not necessary.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/532259-ohio-governor-signs-bill-requiring-women-to-choose-burial-or-cremation
secondwind
(16,903 posts)yellerpup
(12,253 posts)Why not?
SunSeeker
(51,588 posts)Think we should require every man to solemnly bury or "donate to science" every jizz-filled Kkeenex he produces, or risk prison?
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)my suggestion was that a third choice be added to point out the absurdity of this bill. Of course it's no one's business what a woman does with her pregnancy, and it's also no oe's business what a man does with his jizz-filled Kleenex.
I didn't comment to start a fight, I just proposed adding a scientific option to the existing legislation.
sakabatou
(42,165 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)This isnt lawmaking; it is theater.
womanofthehills
(8,731 posts)Courts blocked it. The women of Indiana then started a group Periods for Pence -flooding his office with info about when they had their periods - while fighting his restrictive abortion laws.
certainot
(9,090 posts)all rw radio stations in the state need to hear
business on them cannot be norm
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)I am trying to remember but I think there was something about women being arrested if they had a miscarriage at home and couldn't prove it wasn't an abortion? That was what triggered the "Periods for Pence" campaign.
montanacowboy
(6,097 posts)I think he lives in his mother's basement
maxrandb
(15,344 posts)This is why my below statement still stands;
Describing ANY Retrumplican politician as 'good', or 'decent', is like saying 'Jeffrey Dahmer was a good neighbor because he only ate out of towners'".
Retrumplicans MUST be defeated EVERYWHERE!!
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Hekate
(90,753 posts)...any fetal tissue there.
And no, I am not joking. The cruel hypocrisy involved is gut-churning.
SunnyATT
(56 posts)The vast majority of therapeutic vs. spontaneous abortions occur prior to 10 weeks gestation. How is cremation or burial even possible when the actual fetal tissue (if it could be isolated from the products of conception) is only 1/2-1 inch long?
bucolic_frolic
(43,236 posts)or just pushing the costs off on clinics?
Freedom! Being told by the government how you must run your belief system according to government standards.
This has to be unconstitutional.
irisblue
(33,010 posts)Response to irisblue (Reply #11)
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CrispyQ
(36,487 posts)Fetus personhood rights keeps showing up on our ballots in CO. And we keep voting it down, but the zealots are persistent.
Hekate
(90,753 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 31, 2020, 08:52 PM - Edit history (1)
After all, if the sinful woman wasnt doing something wrong, she would not have lost her baby. Be on notice: this is seriously where it is going, and in some cases has already gone (Fresno, California, for instance).
moose65
(3,167 posts)This has to be unconstitutional. How can they have a law that forces a certain type of funeral?
Party of small government, my ass.
Danmel
(4,918 posts)just another way to torment women and add an additional emotionaland financial burden on women.
what a mean petty person.
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Cirque du So-What
(25,953 posts)Ive been seeing a lot of hes not too terrible for a repuke sentiments, mostly due to handling the COVID-19 crisis, but to those of us who are more familiar with him, this debacle is true-to-form for this pandering prick.
Nitram
(22,843 posts)Hekate
(90,753 posts)Deuxcents
(16,287 posts)In the meantime, its the women who are once again put on notice for their bodies. I agree with the post above..more misery n bs for women. This old fuck should worry about the Covid ravaging his state. And stay the hell out of personal issues. Retire this guy, Ohio.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)To determine how their remains will be handled after facing the firing squad?
DENVERPOPS
(8,843 posts)the Devil's Spawn.....
BumRushDaShow
(129,228 posts)WAKE UP!
electric_blue68
(14,923 posts)people.
Now, I'm NOT sure whether the following was only
applying to LGB issues ( no TQUI back then)
or included a women's right to choose...
(both important to me)
But Ralph Nader back then pre the Nov vote (Gore vs Bush) dismissing this as "gonad politics".
F U, Ralphie for your arrogance!
As a supporter in general (not for the election) from back in '70 that drive me away.
cstanleytech
(26,305 posts)MiniMe
(21,718 posts)mountain grammy
(26,638 posts)barbtries
(28,808 posts)please tell me i'm right.
what fucking bullshit.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)Or pickled in a jar for anti-choice freaks to wave and/or throw at people?
"In a dignified manner," of course.
ananda
(28,870 posts)Ugghhh
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)He was, is and always will be a pig.
progree
(10,909 posts)CONSTITUTION and THIS IS AMERICA, OPEN OUR BARS NOW!
I wonder what happens if a maskhole pregnant woman in a bar catches Covid and dies, along with her fetus
OMG! That's different! Unborn life is sacred!
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Cozmo
(1,402 posts)lonely bird
(1,687 posts)Ohi-abama strikes again.
Republicans are disgusting.
Marthe48
(16,993 posts)governor, the a**holes that are running this state into the ground and all of the frivilous, useless stupid ideas they make laws.
TNNurse
(6,928 posts)Jay25
(417 posts)What is he responsible for?
JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)Discrimination could be the act's judicial failing.
Maven
(10,533 posts)These people are truly VILE.
benld74
(9,908 posts)Disgusting old white men
Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,231 posts)Dear god, the families of teenage boys would be spending 24-7 at funeral homes.
JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)The right was already threatening him over masks and the lockout. Now the left will join in protest.
Now his base will be limited to religious anti-abortion liberal conservatives.
pfitz59
(10,382 posts)while they're at it. Since he's obsessed with women's reproductive freedoms.
womanofthehills
(8,731 posts)When he was governor - plus tons of messages about periods coming on time or late.
JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)Are my taxes going to fund an abortion cemetery?
We have the constitution right to have an abortion, regardless of financial status. That leaves it as the state's obligation.
They really thought this out.
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ellie
(6,929 posts)is such an asshole. I can't believe the good people of Ohio (I am an Ohio native) elected this guy.
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SunSeeker
(51,588 posts)This is so fucked up.
Takket
(21,600 posts)burial traditions are deeply steeped in religious practices. Establishing a burial requirement like this establishes a religion and violates the mother's and clinic's (remember, business are people under Citizens United), choice of religious burial practice (or non at all if they so choose)
bringthePaine
(1,729 posts)turbinetree
(24,709 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)since you never know when a "period" is actually a miscarriage.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)"Natural" abortions happen all the time.
That's a lotta sacred tampons!
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)It never happened.
The funeral home industry went berserk because they did not want it.
Doctors and hospitals lobbied against it.
raccoon
(31,112 posts)riversedge
(70,261 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)We dont have any of these stupid edicts.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,356 posts)... what with Covid-19 and Opioids, and the moronic Republicans want to add to the stress on the infrastructure. Not to mention the stress on patients.
There's a less stressful place just to the north of Ohio, for those with means to travel.
Welcome to Michigan.
electric_blue68
(14,923 posts)We are people first !!!
We decide when or whether to have children (a child) - can't be free without that!
We are not your damn broodmares! 😠🤬🤬
Having to listen to this crap much of my life in general (in the zeitgeist) not (luckily!) from my immediate or extended family.
Just cause I didn't want kids didn't mean I didn't/don't want good maternal care, education, good health care, nutrition, domicile etc, and support for people/person w kid(s).
(people in general, too! 🙂 )