Grand Prairie (WBAP/KLIF News) – The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a lawsuit to block Texas’ regulations on how to dispose of fetal remains.
The law is scheduled to take effect next week and would require hospitals and clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains. Right now, fetal tissue can be sent to a landfill.
“These insidious regulations are a new low in Texas’ long history of denying women the respect that they deserve,” the Center for Reproductive Rights has written in a statement.
The organization wants a judge to issue a temporary restraining order that would block the state from enforcing the law.
State Representative Chris Turner (D-Grand Prairie) is not part of the lawsuit, but he says the law would simply cost hospitals and clinics money, which would be passed on to women.
“I think it is a purely political move,” he says. “It simply falls under the category of an unnecessary government regulation.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and supporters of the law have said the measure simply prevents the remains of a fetus from being sent to a landfill and does not prevent women from getting an abortion.
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