[sagar]

This is whyI hate these retarded laws that don’t tackle an issue head on, but play games around the issue. Wtf does corpse burial of a murdered child have to do with being pro life? How about laws to prosecute the doctors and the “mothers” for the murders?

[madprof98]

Doesn’t matter what the laws says. If it’s pro-life in tone, a federal judge will overturn it. Of course, if they wanted to turn the dead babies into earrings or something, that would be super-OK.

[lee martell]

It’s a very tricky issue, to say the least. I can see the points for either side. I think the manner of disposal should be the mother’s option , and this choice should be made before the procedure if any, is performed. It would be too much to bring this up for discussion afterward. The mother may be in a subdued state of shock for a while leading up to and immediately afterward.

That’s not the time for her to make such a broad decision. Meanwhile, I hope Adult Stem Cell Research becomes much more common. Fetal tissue is not the only way. We know that now.

[reaganaut]

When I miscarried my first child at 12 weeks, I asked for the remains to bury her. I was given a specimin bottle marked ‘biohazard’. When I spoke to a funeral home, I was told I only needed a death certificate after 20 weeks gestation and they could not bury without a death certificate. We ended up burying her at our ranch.

The irony is, in CA I could have aborted her past 20 weeks (not that I would) and not needed a death certificate.

[TheDon]

“That I would have had to take or make either of those decisions is mind-boggling and terrifying,” Booker said of the proposed requirements. “I can’t imagine how much worse that would’ve made my situation.”

Exactly what is the issue here? Is Booker saying that disposing of her unborn fetus in the landfill is a better option than cremation or burial? What am I missing? She would likely have chosen cremation and the hospital would have incinerated the remains. End of story. I am not sure why anyone would object for any reason.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Having lost several children to miscarriages I don't understand her point.

A child is a child and losing one before or after birth is devastating.

But I think the thought that my precious children had been tossed in a landfill like so much garbage would have made it much worse not better.

Is she trying to pretend she did not lose a "real" child to avoid the grief that it brings?