Federal judge permanently blocks Texas fetal burial law

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Texas law that would require the burial or cremation of any fetal remains.

The law would cause a "near catastrophic" failure of the health care system for women of childbearing age in Texas, U.S. District Judge David Ezra wrote in his ruling issuing a permanent injunction.

Passed in 2017, the law would have required health care facilities bury or cremate fetal remains, whether they are the result of an abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, or an ectopic pregnancy, regardless of a patients' wishes.

Ezra wrote in his decision that the law "would be a violation of a woman's right to obtain a legal abortion under the law as it stands today."

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/405233-federal-judge-permanently-blocks-texas-fetal-burial-law

[Gothmog]

1. This bill was stupid

[Scurrilous]

2. K&R

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. What great news! Thank goodness for intelligent Federal judges. n/t

[Freethinker65]

4. Good.

I went through this bullshit after a spontaneous abortion at a Catholic Hospital. I was asked by a priest if I wanted a service held for the remains of the tissue samples (for the record NO fetal tissue was even detected). I was shocked and said it would not be necessary. Then I was asked again by some sisters. Again I refused saying it was ridiculous to have a service for a clump of cells.

Well, they fucking went ahead and did it without my consent because a year later I was invited to an annual memorial service for dead cells. My newborn preemie son was fighting for his life in NICU and they had the nerve to call me about a memorial service for something that I told them not to do and had put way behind me. At first I even thought they were somehow informing me my preemie son had died. I pretty much told them to go to hell.

My son is now turning 21.

[Ilsa]

7. Oh my god.

I wish I could say I'm shocked, but nothing they do surprises me any more, except maybe giving a teenage girl bus fare to go to a Planned Parenthood clinic.

[paleotn]

12. .....

Sorry, I'm speechless.


My condolences for having to deal with religo-nuts.

[Initech]

5. God damn pro life scumbags.

[eggplant]

9. Anti-women scumbags.

[iluvtennis]

6. Just like it's a woman choice to have an abortion,it should be her choice to/not to bury remains. nt

[Ilsa]

8. I miscarried and saw the

Embryonic tissue. I've blown my nose and gotten more mucus than when I miscarried.

[ehrnst]

10. Some sanity from Texas. Good.(nt)

[Paladin]

11. In your ugly FACE, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

Many thanks, Judge Ezra.

[paleotn]

13. Unbelievable.

People and their stupid, fucked up religion.

[logosoco]

14. What a horrible law to even be thought up!

I had two ectopic pregnancies and this would have made things so much worse for me if I had been required to sign off for anything like that.

What is with folks having personal beliefs like this and then wanting them made into LAWS! If someone wants to memorialize a fetus, they can. They should not be forced to.

[SharonAnn]

15. And you probably would've had to pay for it.

[Hekate]

16. "...under the law as it stands today" is the chilling part, as Texas tries to change the law. nt

[Massacure]

17. This may be a dumb question, but why was this this law such a big deal?

I don't doubt the law was an attack on abortion rights, I get that. But from a medical provider's point of view, wouldn't they continue with business as usual even with this law? Aren't tonsils, gallbladders, and other medical waste already already incinerated? What's the difference between throwing an amputated leg and a fetus in the furnace?

[Gothmog]

18. Federal judge strikes down Texas law that would require cremation or burial of fetal remains.

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