Ohio governor signs bill requiring women to choose burial or cremation of aborted fetal tissue

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill


BY JOSEPH CHOI - 12/31/20 04:29 PM EST



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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R ) signed a bill Wednesday that will require any aborted tissue to be either buried or cremated, leaving the decision to either the female patient or the clinic and penalizing whoever fails to decide.

The bill signed on Wednesday also states, “the pregnant woman is responsible for the costs related to the final disposition of the fetal remains at the chosen location.”

Those who are found to have failed to meet the requirements defined in the bill are subject to face, “a misdemeanor of the first degree.” If cremation is chosen as the form of disposal then the remains must either be placed in a "grave, crypt, or niche" or scattered in a "dignified manner."

Laurel Powell of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio told local ABC-affiliate News 5 the law was not necessary.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/532259-ohio-governor-signs-bill-requiring-women-to-choose-burial-or-cremation

[secondwind]

1. ....

[yellerpup]

2. OR a donation to science.

Why not?

[SunSeeker]

49. Because it's none of anyone's business but the woman and her doctor.

Think we should require every man to solemnly bury or "donate to science" every jizz-filled Kkeenex he produces, or risk prison?

[yellerpup]

63. Since the current legislation offers only two choices

my suggestion was that a third choice be added to point out the absurdity of this bill. Of course it's no one's business what a woman does with her pregnancy, and it's also no oe's business what a man does with his jizz-filled Kleenex.

I didn't comment to start a fight, I just proposed adding a scientific option to the existing legislation.

[sakabatou]

3. Hopefully some court/judge will overturn this.

[SCantiGOP]

39. Similar bills have been overturned

This isn’t lawmaking; it is theater.

[womanofthehills]

56. Pence made a similar law when he was governor of Indiana

Courts blocked it. The women of Indiana then started a group “Periods for Pence” -flooding his office with info about when they had their periods - while fighting his restrictive abortion laws.

[certainot]

58. this is all about a few dipshits on the radio

all rw radio stations in the state need to hear

business on them cannot be norm

[yellowdogintexas]

59. PEriods for Pence was epic. They started it when the law was first proposed

I am trying to remember but I think there was something about women being arrested if they had a miscarriage at home and couldn't prove it wasn't an abortion? That was what triggered the "Periods for Pence" campaign.

[montanacowboy]

4. What an ugly little man

I think he lives in his mother's basement

[maxrandb]

62. And there were some "praising" this dipshit for his Covid response

This is why my below statement still stands;

Describing ANY Retrumplican politician as 'good', or 'decent', is like saying 'Jeffrey Dahmer was a good neighbor because he only ate out of towners'".

Retrumplicans MUST be defeated EVERYWHERE!!

[Hekate]

6. He's just begging for women to send him their menstrual pads so he can determine if there's...

...any fetal tissue there.

And no, I am not joking. The cruel hypocrisy involved is gut-churning.

[SunnyATT]

25. What you posted is not far from the truth.

The vast majority of therapeutic vs. spontaneous abortions occur prior to 10 weeks gestation. How is cremation or burial even possible when the actual fetal tissue (if it could be isolated from the products of conception) is only 1/2-1 inch long?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Is this angling for fetus is personhood?

or just pushing the costs off on clinics?

Freedom! Being told by the government how you must run your belief system according to government standards.

This has to be unconstitutional.

[irisblue]

11. He has a long long history of being anti woman

[CrispyQ]

12. Ugh.

Fetus personhood rights keeps showing up on our ballots in CO. And we keep voting it down, but the zealots are persistent.

[Hekate]

14. Yes, this is Fetal Personhood, & the thinking extends to all miscarriages as well....

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After all, if the sinful woman wasn’t doing something wrong, she would not have lost her baby. Be on notice: this is seriously where it is going, and in some cases has already gone (Fresno, California, for instance).

[moose65]

24. Agreed

This has to be unconstitutional. How can they have a law that forces a certain type of “funeral”?

Party of small government, my ass.

[Danmel]

8. cruelty is the only reason for this policy

just another way to torment women and add an additional emotionaland financial burden on women.
what a mean petty person.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I hope this brings people back to reality where DeWine is concerned

I’ve been seeing a lot of ‘he’s not too terrible for a repuke’ sentiments, mostly due to handling the COVID-19 crisis, but to those of us who are more familiar with him, this debacle is true-to-form for this pandering prick.

[Nitram]

13. I wonder if men who masturbate will be required to provide a funeral for their wasted seed?

[Hekate]

16. Well, that is "the sin of Onan," after all. Every sperm is sacred. nt

[Deuxcents]

31. I would love if this could happen

In the meantime, it’s the women who are once again put on notice for their bodies. I agree with the post above..more misery n bs for women. This old fuck should worry about the Covid ravaging his state. And stay the hell out of personal issues. Retire this guy, Ohio.

[Me.]

15. Nasty Little Pig

[Mr. Ected]

17. How about a law that requires the children of a fascist traitor to the USA

To determine how their remains will be handled after facing the firing squad?

[DENVERPOPS]

20. I prefer to call Trump's adult offspring

the Devil's Spawn.....

[BumRushDaShow]

18. For all those who insist "there's no difference between the parties"

WAKE UP!

[electric_blue68]

68. Life knows I've had (verbal) fights w some of these...

people.

Now, I'm NOT sure whether the following was only
applying to LGB issues ( no TQUI back then)

or included a women's right to choose...
(both important to me)


But Ralph Nader back then pre the Nov vote (Gore vs Bush) dismissing this as "gonad politics".

F U, Ralphie for your arrogance!

As a supporter in general (not for the election) from back in '70 that drive me away.

[cstanleytech]

19. Mike Swine strikes again. nt

[MiniMe]

21. Are they going to make the woman pay for said burial too?

[mountain grammy]

22. Unfuckingbelievable.

[barbtries]

23. this is going to be challenged, right?

please tell me i'm right.

what fucking bullshit.

[Grokenstein]

26. or scattered in a "dignified manner."

Or pickled in a jar for anti-choice freaks to wave and/or throw at people?
"In a dignified manner," of course.

[ananda]

27. Not a good governor at all, especially for women.

Ugghhh

[blueinredohio]

28. That's why I've always called him Mike DeSwine.

He was, is and always will be a pig.

[progree]

29. But if 300,000+ children and adult Americans die from Covid it's a price we pay for FREEDOM and

CONSTITUTION and THIS IS AMERICA, OPEN OUR BARS NOW!

I wonder what happens if a maskhole pregnant woman in a bar catches Covid and dies, along with her fetus

OMG! That's different! Unborn life is sacred!

[Miigwech]

30. Forced any Handmaids yet to sign up?

[Cozmo]

32. WTF This guy is disgusting

[lonely bird]

33. Once again my state shows how bass-ackwards it is

Ohi-abama strikes again.

Republicans are disgusting.

[Marthe48]

34. what a f'n ridiculous

governor, the a**holes that are running this state into the ground and all of the frivilous, useless stupid ideas they make laws.

[TNNurse]

35. Is he going to pay????

[Jay25]

36. And the father?

What is he responsible for?

[JohnnyRingo]

42. Funny how it doesn't address that.

Discrimination could be the act's judicial failing.

[Maven]

37. Fucking ghoul.

These people are truly VILE.

[benld74]

38. What a bunch of

Disgusting old white men

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

40. With that in mind I suppose he should also have a service for spent seed?

Dear god, the families of teenage boys would be spending 24-7 at funeral homes.

[JohnnyRingo]

41. DeWine might as well have both sides detest him

The right was already threatening him over masks and the lockout. Now the left will join in protest.

Now his base will be limited to religious anti-abortion liberal conservatives.

[pfitz59]

43. How about the women just mail all their used menstrual products to his office

while they're at it. Since he's obsessed with women's reproductive freedoms.

[womanofthehills]

57. Pence got sent used menstrual products when he passed a similar law

When he was governor - plus tons of messages about periods coming on time or late.

[JohnnyRingo]

44. And if the girl (or guy) doesn't have money?

Are my taxes going to fund an abortion cemetery?
We have the constitution right to have an abortion, regardless of financial status. That leaves it as the state's obligation.

They really thought this out.

[ellie]

46. God, DeWine

is such an asshole. I can't believe the good people of Ohio (I am an Ohio native) elected this guy.

[SunSeeker]

50. Another attempt to punish and degrade women who dared to control their own body.

This is so fucked up.

[Takket]

51. clear violation of the First Amendment

burial traditions are deeply steeped in religious practices. Establishing a burial requirement like this establishes a religion and violates the mother's and clinic's (remember, business are people under Citizens United), choice of religious burial practice (or non at all if they so choose)

[bringthePaine]

52. further require all RefuKKKchickens personally attend all such mandated actions and events

[turbinetree]

53. Like Ohio doesn't have something else to do, you know like a F... pandemic raging across the state

and then to go after the right of privacy.............

[McCamy Taylor]

54. Good grief! Next we will be required to "bury" tampons

since you never know when a "period" is actually a miscarriage.

[CTyankee]

65. This was what I was going to post. A lot of "periods" have fertilized ova in them.

"Natural" abortions happen all the time.

That's a lotta sacred tampons!

[Progressive Jones]

55. They are a sick, disgusting death cult. nt

[yellowdogintexas]

60. this was attempted in Texas around the same time

It never happened.
The funeral home industry went berserk because they did not want it.
Doctors and hospitals lobbied against it.

[raccoon]

61. What an idiot. What does he require of the fetus's father? Nt

[riversedge]

64. wonder if they will be making a law to bury the loose sperm found on skin, panties, etc. ????

[roamer65]

66. Have the abortion done in Michigan.

We don’t have any of these stupid edicts.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

67. Ohio's morgues and funeral homes are bulging at the seams, ...

... what with Covid-19 and Opioids, and the moronic Republicans want to add to the stress on the infrastructure. Not to mention the stress on patients.

There's a less stressful place just to the north of Ohio, for those with means to travel.

Welcome to Michigan.

[electric_blue68]

69. Another fucking hindrance for Women...

We are people first !!!
We decide when or whether to have children (a child) - can't be free without that!

We are not your damn broodmares! 😠🤬🤬

Having to listen to this crap much of my life in general (in the zeitgeist) not (luckily!) from my immediate or extended family.


Just cause I didn't want kids didn't mean I didn't/don't want good maternal care, education, good health care, nutrition, domicile etc, and support for people/person w kid(s).

(people in general, too! 🙂 )