Buried State (2016)

That’s why the Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit to block the new rules, which were finalized in late November. The Center now plans to seek a court order to permanently strike down the regulations. The regulations would have applied to hospitals, abortion clinics, and other health care facilities, but not individual women. That wasn’t the case for a similar law in Indiana signed by Vice President- elect Mike Pence earlier this year.

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That law, which was later blocked by a judge, was so poorly written that it could have technically required women to cremate or bury their menstrual blood. Laws like these are sometimes described as requiring “funerals for fetuses.” To be clear, this doesn’t mean that women are required to host or attend memorial services. But it does effectively require women to pay for funerary services, cremation or burial, that are normally optional (if they’re offered at all) for fetuses or fetal tissue. That’s because using funerary services instead of normal medical waste procedures is likely to dramatically increase costs for health care centers (as much as two- to fourfold, Planned Parenthood estimated).

While health department officials claimed that these costs would be . Funeral directors told the Texas Tribune’s Alexa Ura that they worried about how the rules will affect the families they serve. For instance, funeral homes currently offer cremation to parents grieving a miscarriage as a charitable service — but increased demand from the state could end that practice. Advocates say they fear the regulations could even close clinics that aren’t able to find a funeral service provider who will work with them. Fetal burial bills are becoming the latest trend in anti- abortion lawmaking Guttmacher Institute. Fetal burial requirements like the ones in Texas appear to be the hot new trend in tactics that could use burdensome regulations to limit abortion indirectly. In addition to the blocked law in Indiana, Ohio has been trying to pass a law requiring fetal tissue to be cremated or buried.

That push started after state Attorney General Mike De. Wine made baseless claims last year that Planned Parenthood improperly disposed of fetuses in landfills. Ever since Republicans took over many state legislatures in the 2. Not all of these laws are unique. Many are copies of model legislation proposed by lobbying groups like Americans United for Life. And many start off being proposed or passed in just one or a few states, before spreading to others as the ideas catch on among lawmakers eager to limit abortion in any way they can.

The Supreme Court recently struck down two such laws in Texas — one that required doctors to have difficult- to- obtain “admitting privileges” at a nearby hospital, and another that required abortions to be provided in mini hospitals that are expensive to build. The Court found that these laws created an unconstitutional “undue burden” on women seeking abortion. But while similar laws have fallen since the Court’s decision in states like Wisconsin, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, many still remain in place and will require a specific legal challenge in order to be struck down in court. Fighting them takes a lot of time, money, and effort. And in the end, at least a few restrictions are likely to survive, or at least do a lot to limit abortion as long as they are allowed to remain standing. Update: This post has been updated with news that the rules have been blocked in court; to clarify that miscarriages that occur in hospitals are also subject to the new rules; to explain how the Texas regulations compare to fetal tissue disposal provisions in other states; and to add comments from funeral directors on the potential costs and impacts of the rules.