Michigan bills seek dignified burial for abortion victims

Michigan bills seek dignified burial for abortion victims: A package of bills passed the Senate on November 10 with a vote of 30-8. Right to Life of Michigan says they have assurances from sponsors of the bill that the issue will be taken up in the House at the beginning of the next legislative session in January. The bills aim to give greater dignity to the remains of unborn children killed in abortion.

H.B. 5928 would change the Michigan health code “so that fetal remains will no longer be classified as ‘products of conception,’ along with the placenta, umbilical cord, and other uterine contents. Two other bills (S.B. 1563 and H.B. 5929) would directly legislate the methods hospitals and abortion clinics use to dispose of fetal remains.

The proposed legislation comes in response to the revelation in late October that abortion clinics in Delta Township and Saginaw had been illegally dumping fetal remains and medical records into a dumpster.