One state legislator called the Pennsylvania bill a “back-door approach to limit access to abortion”
that would require burials or cremation for fetal remains from any time in a pregnancy after conception. The law currently requires burials or cremation for fetuses after 16 weeks of gestation, but the new law would apply to “expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, which shows no evidence of life after the expulsion or extraction,” meaning it could effectively apply to fertilized eggs that are not yet a fetus, including frozen fertilized eggs from IVF.
But, like Ohio’s bill, it’s a somewhat absurd proposition when you look at the science. Most of the time,While the Pennsylvania bill does not state a death certificate is required for a fetus or un-implanted egg, Christine Castro, staff attorney at the Women’s Law Project in Pennsylvania, toldit implicitly does, saying, “The bill is written in a misleading way. No, it does not explicitly mandate a death certificate.
According to Democratic Pennsylvania state Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler, the bill is just a cover for further restricting access to abortion. She told, “I believe this bill imposes mandates on religious rituals on people. That’s not something we should be doing. I believe it’s a dangerous step in restricting abortion in Pennsylvania by increasing the cost of a procedure and adding funeral expenses as well as being an attempt to shame people.
The bill could also further traumatize those already suffering the effects of a miscarriage. “We received heartfelt emails from women telling us about their early miscarriages, how difficult they were, and how much worse it would have been were they forced to get a death certificate for a pregnancy that they understood so differently,” Democratic state Rep. Dan Frankel told PennLive.com. “It’s simply wrong to tell women what a loss of pregnancy is supposed to mean to them.
These proposed laws are further proof that lawmakers are dismissing science in favor of religious fervor and controlling pregnant bodies. And they’re all part of conservative attempts to give Roe v. Wade a slow legislative death via the states. But, as practicing OB/GYN Jennifer Conti told Vice, “You can’t arbitrarily choose when and when not to apply facts. Science is science and embryos are cells of potential, not definitive life.
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