Texas to require aborted fetuses to be cremated or buried
Texas is adding more pain to those who make the decision to abort.
The Texas health department finalized rules this week that will require fetal tissue to be cremated or buried, no matter the stage of development. The new regulations, which are scheduled to take effect on December 19, could dramatically increase the cost of an abortion for women without adding any clear public health or safety benefits.
Other states have proposed similar measures, and Indiana actually managed to pass one that was later blocked in court. But if legal challenges don’t block the new rules in the next few weeks, Texas will be the first state to actually enact such requirements.
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“These new restrictions reveal the callous indifference that Texas politicians have toward women,” David Brown, senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement Monday after the new regulations were finalized. “Forcing a woman to pay for a burial after she ends a pregnancy or experiences a miscarriage is not just absurd — it is an unnecessary burden and an intrusion on her personal beliefs.”
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