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And it's on the fast track for passage in the House.

Michigan’s New Anti-Abortion Law Nation’s Worst
Posted by: Linda Carbonell on June 7, 2012.

Michigan’s legislature is fast tracking a new omnibus bill on abortion that combines every pending bill relating to women’s health on the legislative agenda. Here are the highlights, or lowlights of this bill:

On fast reading of the bills parts, it appears to use a fetal age standard of after conception, not after onset of last period.

It bans all abortions at 20 weeks with no exemption for the health of the mother, rape, incest or fatal fetal anomaly. It has a very limited exemption for the mother’s life.

It asserts that fetuses feel pain.

It requires all aborted fetuses after 8 weeks be buried, cremated or interred under exactly the same guidelines as any dead body. At 8 weeks gestational age, a fetus is a half-inch long (the diameter of a Sharpie) and weighs 0.04 ounces (the weight of 2-3 standard paper clips.) The cost of a burial or internment for an infant is an average of $4,600. The cost of cremation for an infant ranges from $250 to $400.

More details of this horrendous bill at the link.

http://lezgetreal.com/2012/06/michigans-new-anti-abortion-law-nations-worst/