After months of fierce opposition from abortion rights advocates and the medical community, Texas will require fetal remains to be cremated or buried instead of disposed in sanitary landfills.
On Monday, health officials finalized the new rules prohibiting hospitals, abortion clinics and other health care facilities from disposing of fetal remains — regardless of the period of gestation. The rules will take effect Dec. 19, according to state health officials, the Texas Tribune reported.
Wait a minute I don't understand. Can yall please explain why some of you are against this and would rather they went to landfills like trash?
Because it suggests that fetal remains are somehow people when they are clearly not. It's the right's attempt to give a collection of cells person-hood by forcing the remains to be treated as a human being dying.
I always find it amazing how leftists try to argue the moral case on every point, yet are so keen to eliminate the rights of the unborn. Even in this case, where they are only asking to give some dignity to what was a potential human life instead of a callous disposal in a landfill site
I have a problem with this. It suggests that fetuses have conscience or are human beings--they are just cells without awareness. Stop shaming women for aborting, it's their body and their choices. I am sure an old Christian man came up with this brilliant idea. I can't stand pro-"life" (more like pro cells in the womb) people at all.
Because it suggests that fetal remains are somehow people when they are clearly not. It's the right's attempt to give a collection of cells person-hood by forcing the remains to be treated as a human being dying.