Fetal remains; disposition, penalty. (HB970)

The ACLU of Virginia strongly opposes this bill, which is calculated to reduce women's access to quality abortion services in Virginia. The attacks on Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers are part of a broad and consistent pattern by anti-abortion extremists to interfere with women's personal decision-making and block access to abortion and reproductive health care. These politically motivated attacks on women's health and the providers we rely on are a distraction from the real issues. Across Virginia, communities are calling for more access to reproductive health care, not less, greater economic security, and the ability to support and protect their families. Those are the priorities our elected representatives should be focused on.

The ACLU of Virginia strongly opposes this bill, which is calculated to reduce women's access to quality abortion services in Virginia. The attacks on Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers are part of a broad and consistent pattern by anti-abortion extremists to interfere with women's personal decision-making and block access to abortion and reproductive health care. These politically motivated attacks on women's health and the providers we rely on are a distraction from the real issues. Across Virginia, communities are calling for more access to reproductive health care, not less, greater economic security, and the ability to support and protect their families. Those are the priorities our elected representatives should be focused on.

This bill should be killed. It does not allow a grieving family to have a home funeral or burial. It may be good for the funeral home industry, but it is a very bad bill for consumers. It severely limits choice. The bill should die in committee.

I believe a woman should have a choice about what to do with her fetal remains. This privilege should not be taken away. If she chooses to bury the remains, she should be allowed to do so. This law will limit what she can do, taking away her rights. Please defeat this bill.

Ummm....Legislators? Can I fill you in on something? This bill reads like it was written in reaction to the video which was suppose to show planned parenthood selling fetal remains. This is a little embarrassing, ladies and gentlemen, but maybe you don't know that when the Grand Jury investigated pressing charges against planned parenthood, they discovered that it was the folks who ran the sting and made the video who scammed, lied, falsified, and committed FELONIES; that planned parent hood was completely exonerated, and the the liars and scammer who made the video now face very serious charges. It was all fake, folks. Additionally, you're entirely unqualified to determine what should become of biological material resulting from a surgical procedure, and you're entirely out of line giving the state authority to claim ownership over a families lost fetus. Stop the nonsense, please, and tend to something that NEEDS tending. Please.

STOP the insanity!
Miscarriages are common, and some women experience multiple miscarriages.
Can you imagine a family trying to afford multiple funerals?
Utterly shameful that the same men keep trying to override logic, SCIENCE, and human decency to penalize women and families.
Just stop it.
It is not the job of legislators to implement laws that tell people what to do with their own bodies!
Bodily autonomy is a right.

Do these legislators think that fetal remains are only from abortions? When a woman has a miscarriage she suffers a loss of dreams as well as a child. Her pain is great enough as it is, but this adds insult to tragedy.