{"id":213434,"date":"2019-11-03T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=213434"},"modified":"2019-11-02T18:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T23:22:56","slug":"shock-pennsylvania-miscarriage-mess-napkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/shock-pennsylvania-miscarriage-mess-napkin\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCK: Pennsylvania rep calls miscarriage ‘just some mess on a napkin’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While miscarriage is something traumatic for most women, one Pennsylvania lawmaker is in hot water for making some insensitive comments about it. Wendy Ullman, a Democratic Pennsylvania state representative, was debating the issue of fetal burial on the House floor; House Bill 1890<\/a> would require that abortion facilities or health care clinics to either bury or cremate fetal remains, as opposed to throwing them in the trash with medical waste. Ullman opposes this bill, yet her argument against it came across as very callous.<\/p>\n

“It [the bill] refers to the product of conception after fertilization, which covers an awful lot of territory,\u201d Ullman said during a House Health Committee meeting. \u201cI think we all understand the concept of the loss of a fetus, but we\u2019re also talking about a woman who comes into a facility and is having cramps and \u2014 not to be, not to be, concrete \u2014 an early miscarriage is just some mess on a napkin<\/strong>. And I’m not sure people would agree that this is something that we want to take to the point of ritual either cremation or internment.”<\/p>\n