Texas Passes Law Requiring Burial or Cremation of Aborted Babies

[Revmitchell]

Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott dealt pro-life advocates a small victory.

Effective December 19, hospitals and abortion clinics within the state will no longer be allowed to treat aborted babies like medical waste: Medical facilities will be required to either cremate or bury the unborn babies they kill, not contingent on the period of gestation--as opposed to sending the baby's remains to be incinerated or dumped into a landfill, as most facilities currently do.

As reported by the Texas Tribune, Texas health officials proposed the new pro-life legislation back in July, receiving major push-back from pro-abortion zealots. The rules were finalized to ensure that birth and death certificates of aborted babies were not required, as a way to appease confidentiality concerns. Also, it was clarified that new regulations do not apply to miscarriages or abortions done at home. Further, hospitals and abortion clinics will solely be responsible for the burial or cremation, cost and all--not the patient.

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[TCassidy]

What is the difference between the remains being cremated and the remains being incinerated?

 

[annsni]

What is the difference between the remains being cremated and the remains being incinerated?

I would hope the difference would be the dignity with which the bodies are handled but I'm sure that won't matter.

 

[Revmitchell]

What is the difference between the remains being cremated and the remains being incinerated?

It closes the possibility of baby parts being sold

 

[TCassidy]

It closes the possibility of baby parts being sold

How. If the remains are incinerated isn't that just another word for cremated? It seems the Texas legislature has muddied the issue (which is not uncommon for the Texas legislature).

 

[Revmitchell]

How. If the remains are incinerated isn't that just another word for cremated? It seems the Texas legislature has muddied the issue (which is not uncommon for the Texas legislature).

I am not really sure what part of this you are missing but let me take a stab at it. The incineration process is done in the manner of a bag of baby parts destroyed as if it was trash. With this new law the remains will have to be treated and also accounted for through an official cremation. A record of the individual remains will be kept verse unaccountable medical staff throwing baby parts together as if it was merely trash.

I hope this helps.

 

[TCassidy]

I am not really sure what part of this you are missing but let me take a stab at it. The incineration process is done in the manner of a bag of baby parts destroyed as if it was trash. With this new law the remains will have to be treated and also accounted for through an official cremation. A record of the individual remains will be kept verse unaccountable medical staff throwing baby parts together as if it was merely trash.

I hope this helps.

Except that is not what the law says. In a normal cremation (and I have arranged the cremation of 3 family members since 2008 and officiated at over a dozen funerals where cremation was the family's choice for disposition of the remains) the record keeping you describe is done via the death certificate, including how the ashes will be disposed of. But the new law does not require a death certificate. In fact the new law reads quite clearly that no death certificate is required for the disposal of abortion remains.

So, the question remains: what is the difference between incineration (one of the present practices) and cremation (the new requirement)?

 

[Revmitchell]

So anyways back to the op this is a very smart idea. It bring accountability to what is done to the remains of slaughtered unborn children.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Another difference may be the cremated remains go to a cemetery\columbarium rather than a landfill.

 

[TCassidy]

Another difference may be the cremated remains go to a cemetery\columbarium rather than a landfill.

In Texas cremated remains may be disposed of however the family wishes (with certain restrictions). The new law does make it illegal to dispose of non-cremated remains in landfills, which was common under the old law, and was the main reason for the new law. It has nothing to do with stopping abortion. It was an issue of public health issues arising from human remains being dumped in a landfill.

 

[annsni]

Can you imagine being a worker at a landfill and finding a dead, dismembered baby?

 

[TCassidy]

Can you imagine being a worker at a landfill and finding a dead, dismembered baby?

No. That is beyond my ability to imagine. I was not even aware the abortuaries were dumping the remains in landfills. That part of the law is right on!

 

[Benjamin]

The whole thing is sick! On one hand they allow for the murder as if the unborn have no rights and then on the other treat the remains with the right to be properly buried with DIGNITY...give me a break!!


At best this could be stepping stone for the fight for the rights of the unborn...other than that their priorities are seriously messed up!