As Twitchy reported, Texas health officials in late November announced that new rules requiring the cremation or burial of fetal remains would take effect in December. The new rule meant that hospitals and abortion clinics would be prohibited from disposing of fetal remains in sanitary landfills.
Abortion rights groups obviously were outraged over the change, and a campaign was launched on Facebook encouraging women to mail bloody tampons to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in protest.
https://twitter.com/LeslieCannold/status/804960292480290816
(Men who wanted to get in on the act reportedly were directed by Satanic Temple spokesperson Jex Blackmore to mail Gov. Abbott semen-encrusted materials along with the handwritten note, “These r babies. Plz bury.”)
Abortion rights activists have used a variety of words to describe the requirement to cremate or bury fetal remains, such as “absurd” and “insidious,” but Mother Jones confounded a few people today by describing the rule as “creepy.”
Reproductive Rights Activists Are Mad as Hell Over This Creepy New Abortion Rule https://t.co/z7tlJzwcc3
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) December 13, 2016
Just the thought of cremating fetal remains is so creepy, it makes us want to mail soiled menstrual products to the governor.
Treating dead unborn children with the dignity they
deserve = "Creepy new rule" to libs. #WhyTrumpWonhttps://t.co/aaPJraK3X3— BonkPolitics (@BonkPolitics) December 13, 2016
Burying a human body instead of throwing it away like trash is creepy? https://t.co/gFd8o6fCo4
— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) December 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/rightlydivide/status/808812088432828416
Sorry its going to cut severely into your baby parts profits?
— ??boomerang?? (@ltodd14) December 13, 2016
To be honest, Mother Jones doesn’t go into detail on the creepiness of the rule — that’s assumed. A major concern, though, is the burdensome costs of cremating or burying the remains, which “would make accessing reproductive services prohibitively expensive for low-income women.” However, according to the Texas Tribune, health care facilities and not patients would be responsible for the cost.
they're also openly lying (this is my shocked face) about the cost—there will be no cost passed on to the mothers or providers.
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) December 13, 2016
Costs will be assumed by pro-life groups and clergy, not mothers or providers—that's been clear from the beginning.
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) December 13, 2016
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TweetFest: Pro-life activists demand a funeral and proper burial for #GosnellBabies http://t.co/NzHL6J27aa
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 7, 2013
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