{"id":214783,"date":"2019-12-02T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=214783"},"modified":"2019-12-01T21:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T03:52:03","slug":"media-lying-abortion-pennsylvania-fetal-remains-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/media-lying-abortion-pennsylvania-fetal-remains-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsurprisingly, pro-abortion media is lying about Pennsylvania’s Fetal Remains Act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bill passed the Pennsylvania House of Representatives earlier this month with bipartisan support<\/a>. “The Final Disposition of Fetal Remains Act” is rather straightforward<\/a>: it merely requires that hospitals either bury or cremate fetal remains, or return them to the parents upon request. This is currently law for preborn children after 16 weeks of gestation. That the bill received support from both Republicans and Democrats should indicate that it’s a largely uncontroversial piece of legislation — but instead, it’s come under attack.<\/p>\n

At Business Insider, Julia Naftulin penned a screed<\/a> declaring the bill to be an unscientific joke, which mandates death certificates for “fertilized eggs” — otherwise known as zygotes<\/em> — which are actually newly created humans. She also makes an assumption that women who experience early miscarriages will also be forced to first obtain death certificates, and then show proof that they have either paid to bury or cremate the remains. This assumption is presented as fact in her write-up attacking the bill, despite these imagined requirements not being present in the actual text of the bill itself<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The bill was similarly attacked by Vice<\/a> (arguing that the bill is nothing more than an attempt to redefine fetal death, and by extension, fetal personhood), and by the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> (arguing that it “unfairly polices” pregnant women).<\/p>\n