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Mon Dec 12, 2016, 04:30 PM Dec 2016

Abortion providers sue to block Texas fetal burial, cremation rule

Abortion providers filed a federal lawsuit Monday to block a Texas rule that will require fetal remains, whether from an abortion or miscarriage, to be buried or cremated.

The lawsuit, filed one week before the regulation was to take effect, argued that the rule is a “pretext for restricting abortion access” that would do nothing to improve health or safety despite assertions from state officials to the contrary.

In addition to increasing costs for women, the regulation “also forces health-care providers to work with an extremely limited number of third-party vendors for burial or scattering ashes, threatening abortion clinics’ provision of care and their long-term ability to remain open,” said the lawsuit, filed in Austin’s federal court.

“These regulations are an insult to Texas women, the rule of law and the U.S. Supreme Court, which declared less than six months ago that medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion access are unconstitutional,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of owners of four abortion facilities.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/abortion-providers-sue-block-texas-fetal-burial-cremation-rule/eVT5JASWxNlwVDmcuR6zdP/

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