“[We are] very pleased that the General Assembly intends to establish clear standards which ensure that the gruesome practice does not continue in Ohio,” spokesman Dan Tierney told the Columbus Dispatch.
As previously reported, in April, Rep. Robert McColley, R-Napoleon, and Rep. Barbara Sears, R-Sylvania, crafted crafted H.B. 417 and 419, which would require that the babies be either buried, cremated or incinerated. If incinerated, they must be burned by themselves, as medical waste companies had mixed mixed the containers of baby body parts in with trash.
The bills also require that mothers give directives as to how they want their child disposed.
The bill was approved by the House Health and Aging Committee, but was criticized by pro-abortion groups as “another way to punish women and the medical community for abortion.”
I think people of all stripes can see that this is superficial. The problem here is “turning the unborn babies into medical waste.” Not in mingling said waste with ordinary trash and treating the whole as medical waste.
We are quibbling about what kind of patina is on the idol.