Last year a group of rabid little anti-choice trolls in Michigan pretended to find a bunch of “fetal remains” while they were rummaging through a dumpster behind a women’s clinic, which, right, TOTALLY PRETEND. But this did not stop worried state lawmakers from feeling like they weren’t allowed to appear indifferent to fictional globs of tissue (being indifferent to non-fictional humans is still okay), so they are working to pass a new “dignified disposal of fetal remains” law commanding hospitals and clinics to immediately send someone in to force women who just have suffered first-trimester miscarriages to get them to make some “funeral plans” for the cell blobs… mostly to help rub it in, we guess?
From Detroit News columnist Laura Berman:
Women who have miscarriages in hospitals would have to sign forms deciding how the hospital should handle the remains, by cremation, interment or burial.
These options would newly involve funeral directors, or the option of using them, in situations where women aren’t necessarily emotionally prepared to think they’ve “lost a baby,” and where historically there’s little precedent for doing so.
It also introduces the potential for new costs, not likely to be covered by insurance.
“I think some women will be devastated,” says Joanne Mulhere, who counsels women undergoing loss of pregnancies at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where about 175 women lose pregnancies through miscarriage or stillbirth annually.
Patients would be handed Kleenex, as well as a form to sign, requesting the remains be cremated, buried or interred.
Maybe this is why we are reading just today about how the U.S. birth rate keeps dropping? Sure, this is mostly because “the economy still sux balls,” but dumb laws like this one promising to traumatize the crap out of women over every single aspect of owning a uterus probably do not help. [Detroit News via RH Reality Check]
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At least they did away with the "Baby Gabe" provision that required you to cuddle and sing with the blob for a day.
I dare them to criminalize masturbation.
Every sperm is sacred!
Catholic eh
That is why I lick up every last one.
-Marcus Bachman
That's part of his de-gay curricucum I think.
The fewer spermatazoa, the less chance of there being more gheyz.
His assessment of jizz after a vasectomy: "Tastes great, less filling!"
they're gonna have to pry my cock from my cold, dead fingers.
Hand me some Kleenex and a form to sign.
You'll have to sign a form designating how to dispose of the used tissues (there's an opt-out for those who use an old sock).
Ah ha, forget about those special receptacles and not flushing your tampons, ladies, soon, when this "sanctity of all reproductive tissue" movement catches on, you will be required to hold a full funeral for every tampon, followed by formal interment in a sanctified Tampon Graveyard, or risk prosecution for abusing a corpse egg.
I just knew Prommie would have an opinion on this.
Dittos. Like an option for all miscarriages during the month of May to be disposed of at the local high school girl's lavatory.
PROM(mie) LIBEL!!!1!
No can do, May is a busy month for live-births in the high school lavatories, or else at the restrooms of the facility where the Prom is held! No room for all the miscarriages, too.
My rabbit dildo = Child Abuse Crime Weapon
I assume you don't live in Alabama?
I just got swatted down by wonketteBot for trying to give you more thumbies than my ass can cash (apparently)
"dumb laws like this one promising to traumatize the crap out of women over every single aspect of owning a uterus probably do not help"
I am leasing mine. One more payment and it belongs to me!
I hope you don't experience a sudden financial catastrophe and have to have your uterus repossessed.
I hate to mention it, but I do think you may have an eminent domain issue. Considering how far these guys are willing to go; Well for many it may be the only way for them into a women's uterus.
2 wombs, rv. vu.
As for the women, nothing says 'dignity' quite like the patronizing handoff of a warm tissue and clipboard.
The law commands them to give the failed mother a Kleenex, and no other tissue brand apparently. Could Kimberly-Clark lobbyists be behind this?
What? No option to take it home in a jar?
We call this one "Jarry."
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Can we call the brown ones "Jar Jar"?
"I can't make it today, I have to bury my clot. The ceremony is at 3:00."
Open coffin I assume.
Actually, zip-lok baggie – a "closed-but-transparent" ceremony
I think a biohazard bag would be required.
That's no biohazard officer, that's my baby! That one's Frank.
I see that the "Get government outta my life" crowd is at it again. Bizzaro World!
of course, women must be punished for a natural and very frequent occurrence. it's really the right thing to do. today, we are all scarcely differentiated globs of tissue.
i'm waiting for the Supreme Court to decide for me.
Globs of tissue can indeed contribute unlimited funds to Super-PACs.
They give you a Kleenex and then ask you what to do with the tiny blob of cells — isn't that redundant?
Pro-tip for the "pro-lifer" who might stumble upon this discussion: Rummaging through medical waste bins is an AWESOME idea. Just dive right into that dumpster and rip open those red bags.
I'm a medical researcher, trust me on this one.
Hep C(hrist) for everyone!
and if you see what looks like a coffee pot full of urine it's actually delicious lemonade.
And remember, teensy weensy little ribs feel just as pointy as needle points, so if you feel pricking in your fingers, dig harder!
Those are Jesus Sharps you're talking about!
A very sharp idea.
Won't this bring out the syringe element?
PS – all the really good stuff is in the red plastic bags labeled "BIOHAZARD."
Another pro tip: Look for the red petri dishes with the white spots on them. Those are especially yummy!
What a bile thing to say!
Look for this symbol: http://edu.glogster.com/media/4/21/16/61/21166158…
It represents, um, Christ emerging from the empty tomb.
Sparky, you should explain the fool-proof "Fetus Taste Test" for determining whether the tissue you're in contact with is in fact actual fetal tissue.
And the jokey doctor says, "A tissue for some tissue? waka waka waka!"
Shit, I can't like this more than once.
Oh, Patch Adams. You heal us with laughter.
+1 for the Fozzie Bear reference. Man, I'm glad to see the Muppets are back.
Did you ever notice how the placenta looks like a pizza?
deep fried, they're more like a funnel cake.
You are saying that Herman Cain is behind this?
One more vegetable for the school lunch menu.
But tastes just. like. chicken.
LARAINE: …By the way, are you planning to eat the placenta?
GILDA: You're kidding! You mean the afterbirth?
LARAINE: That's right. Many mammals eat their own placenta. It's nutritious, it's 100 percent natural, and now that you're going to have a family, you've got to watch your food budget more than ever. And there's no cheaper meat than placenta.
GILDA: But is there enough placenta to make a complete meal for my husband and myself?
LARAINE: Not if your husband has a hearty appetite like mine. And that's why you need Placenta Helper.
SNL, ca. 1978, never aired.
The sad thing is, now, some really weird people actually do eat the placentas. People are strange.
I know a chick who did this. The thought will bring me to the verge of vom for the rest of my natural life. The garlic tampon also grosses me out, but not in the same league.
You know, I used to think so too until I tried Swanssons new "Spicy Cajun" Shake-n-Bake placenta. Mmmmm.
After I had my 2nd child, we told the doctor we wanted to bring the placenta home for the dog.
He didn't think we were very funny.
“I think some women will be devastated,” says Joanne Mulhere, who counsels women undergoing loss of pregnancies at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak
Who are you going to trust: a medical professional who helps women deal with this trauma every day or a member of the Michigan State Legislature who moves his lips while he reads and can't count past ten without taking his shoes off?
It also introduces the potential for new costs, not likely to be covered by insurance.
Life. What an expensive choice.
Look, the fetus had a pre-existing condition. Of course it was denied coverage.
Seriously, back in 95 I got a letter from the insurance company about my wife's annual inspection and an inquiry into whether or not it was a pre-existing condition. I never did hear back, from my response of "Yes, she had ovaries before I went on this plan." and they covered the bill.
Her "annual inspection?" mind if I steal that? I love it!
I had a miscarriage at about 10 weeks, and the one thing that would've made the experience perfect would've been a smarmy mortician in a dark suit acting sympathetic.
Was going to post pretty much the same thing. Any funeral director who had spoken to me in the ER about "remains disposal" would've gotten a bunch of tongue depressors jammed up their arse
First of all, sorry. That sucks. Been there, done that, got a $600 bill and a bottle of Norco. But more importantly: before they subject women to this indignity, bitches like me will step in and take a mofo out. If they want to inspect the previous contents of someone's uterus, they'll need to fight me for them. And I fight dirty.
"It is our most modestly priced receptacle".
I'm sorry for your loss, FrostBite, and 100% in agreement with your sentiments about a mortician showing up.
I bet the eulogies are very brief at these events.
James was 3 ounces, with a hand and two fingernails that we'd all come to love…
He enjoyed drinking amniotic fluid. That's what I'll remember most of all.
Jenny was on the honor roll and loved listening to Justin Bieber.
Jenny was the product of Bieb's "first" time.
/topical
Cremation? That'll be a challenge. Will they douse it in gasoline?
put it on the end of a cigarette and smoke it. now you and baby are one again.
They would if they could find it, since first-trimester remains are usually too small to be seen without some magnifying device.
How horrifying that a hospital would treat medical waste as medical waste.
Medical waste isn't medical waste when it's a person–with feelings. Shame on you.
Of course, an embryo doesn't actually have feelings or even senses until the brain develops later in the pregnancy; but I forgot, these are theocrats who deny proven science and instead believe our mare are actually part of their imaginary invisible magical-mystical "soul". I guess we should also outlaw abortions because they make the unicorns and fairies cry.
No–seriously, if you walk by a clinic dumpster, you can hear the clots screaming to get out of their bags.
I'm getting so sick of these fetus fetishists pretending there to be some great miracle that comes along with gestation. I had one Christard argue that the presence of a pulse indicates the baby has a soul. Y'know what else has a pulse? A tumor, ya shit.
Don't you go getting all sciency and shit, SorosBot.
I think this is only reasonable. But then I throw an Irish wake every time one of my scabs falls off.
Oh Scabby Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling…
The bandaid's gone, and all the pus is drying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
"Angela's Toenail Clippings" by Frank McCourt was such a powerfully moving book.
Any excuse to drink.
My gf is a funeral director in Michigan, and funeral directors do not want this new business.
No one wants it other than some extremist assholes in Right to Life. The legislature is happy to force health care workers and funeral directors to do their dirty work.
They just want to protect the fetii, and this is the best way to discourage women from having miscarriages. You'll see. Women will be holding it in to avoid such an awkward conversation.
Jesus, it was bad enough the vet asked me if I wanted to cremate my cat or have her "disposed." There was only one option I had the money for, and I still regret that.
You think they could brand "disposal" a little better. Or offer group cremation rates or something.
we have a little pet graveyard in our backyard. one of the few benefits of actually having a yard in my opinion.
No special license plates for uterous owners?
We generally wear a scarlet letter of sorts: tits.
I hear we are going to have a bill saying we have to wear armbands.
how the hospital should handle the remains, by cremation, interment or burial.
Throw in "garbage disposal" and you've got a deal!
There should also be a check – box beside "Mix into moulding clay and bake into a Pope Benedict – shaped toilet brush holder".
But I thought a bear shit in the woods??
I think these concerned Michiganders should also be required to respectfully dispose of their own discharge after they spend quality time with the Sears catalog or that picture of Ronald Reagan.
Isn't that what the Kleenex is for?
What happens if the conception was really immaculate?
then you were doing it wrong.
Michael the Archangel? I ain't falling for that shit again. Joseph is still pissed.
~ Mary
Gentle readers. Jesus being conceived without Mary "knowing" Joseph in the "biblical sense" is referred to as the Virgin Birth. The Immaculate Conception is Mary being conceived without original sin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conceptio…
I suppose others since then could have been conceived without original sin but when Catholics refer to the Immaculate Conception they are referring to Mary. Of course there is still the problem of how to determine a)if one has been conceived without original sin (hair like Donald Trump?) or what to do with the remains.
Sister Mary
These pro-life Nazi's need to stop. They do not care about women or even the unborn.They only seek to impose their religious world view on everyone else.A woman's right to control her reproductive future must not be infringed upon. This act seems to be nothing but petty sour grapes for having lost in Mississippi.
Well that's, um, 'earnest.' Yup, let's just say 'earnest', shall we?
It's just another one of Spanky's multiple personalities. He has, like, 50 of them; you would think at least one wouldn't be completely obnoxious.
Add an option to mail it to the local Lifer HQ, and we're good to go.
All miscarried fetal tissue will now be FedEx'ed to Santorum's house. The grieving mothers will be sent to Liberty University, where they will be killed for Life.
Cuz they just haven't suffered enough.
"Cremation, interment or burial" What is the difference between interment and burial? Is the interment for the Japanese American fetalities?
Also, can we add a fourth category for "Placenta Helper"?
Glad to see that the Republicans remain the party of smaller government that is less intrusive in our lives.
Blob LIBEL!!1!
I don't see why there is even a question here, as everyone knows that the best thing to do with human remains is to roast them in a 350 degree oven for 35 minutes a pound, with a red wine glaze.
Bratwursts are dignified. I’m just sayin’.
I, for one, would have welcomed the opportunity to incinerate the parasitic fallopian terrorist who tried to kill me in June. Not in a crematorium, but holding the fetal blob with tweezers and taking a lighter to the fucker. I understand, however, that I may be the exception, here.
FALLOPIAN TERRORIST! You, madam, have made my Friday.
It should have been sent to the chair! A vwery, vwery tiny widdle electwic chair!
Having watched a friend nearly die that way you get no argument from me.
Sent it to TX. Perry will flip the switch on the little s.o.b. in a heart beat.
Sorry 'bout your friend's difficulties and hope she's healthy again. I knows for sure,the internal bleeding isn't fun nor is the surgical recovery. I joke here, but I'm lucky I got to the hospital and they figured out my issue quickly as death-mongering-fetus was the last thing I would have ever guessed (I was fixed and regular). At least the only "loss" I had to deal with was type O+, no emotional wreckage, just transfusions.
I have a friend whose deadly little fallopian terrorist nearly killed her. I would not have taken kindly to anyone holding a conversation about tissue removal with her, after she had a good chunk of her reproductive system removed from her body because of the miniature killer.
Wow, I'm sorry for your friend's problems, too, and hope she's also doing better. I thought it was totally crazy that a friend of mine also had a fallopian terrorist about a week after me (thankfully, she knew she was preggo, so got herself right to the hospital when she started having pain, so it didn't rupture and they were able to remove it with a much less-invasive laproscopic procedure), but it seems fallopian terrorism is a far more common threat than I realized. I really can't imagine the emotional trauma for somebody who actually wanted a baby. If I'd been asked such a question I might have laughed (and then hit the morphine button like a coked up Jeorpardy contestant) because the idea that I'd give it a funeral or something is so absurd in my context. But that certainly wouldn't be the case for most women and, if I was of the normal inclinations, MisterBarry would've fucking killed somebody (even though he has rules: no jail; no hospitals; strippers, not hookers).
She lived to tell the tale. It was amazing how fast she got so sick, in a few hours really. She didn't even know she was pregnant. The ignorant idiots now spout that there is no such thing as an ectopic pregnancy because "You are not really pregnant then" The Ron Paul morons being the very worst about this subject.
Glad you came through it we need you here.
I can't keep track of all the crackpot fictions the different flavors of morons dream up to fit their warped world views.
And totally feel your friend, there, with the no idea thing. Retrospectively, the only possible clue was that the tatas were a bit tender, but I attributed that to too much coffee. I thought I had food poisoning, honestly…crampy, bloaty feeling and I kept thinking I'd take a good poop and be all better. Of course, it seems ridiculous now, but I didn't have any better guess and I started hurting a couple hours after eating a kinda rare burger for dinner on Saturday. It wasn't until Tuesday morning that I started thinking I needed to see a doctor. But, silly me, I took a bath, because that helps with crampy bloaty feelings…or makes things rupture or bleed out faster (don't know) and when I got out and felt like I was going to pass out, I decided something really was very wrong. A 38 year old woman in my office had died of a heart attack out of the blue a couple weeks earlier and I credit her with tipping the scale on calling 911. Two hours later I was in surgery. Glad I didn't opt for my normal wait-and-see approach. I now joke that I can't tell the difference between a bad case of gas and internal bleeding.
I had a friend rupture a tube in March. She thought she was infertile and just had food poisoning. She had horrible bloating and nausea that kept getting worse and worse. Finally, she started having seizures and her husband called 911. She had hemorrhaged 50% of her blood supply. Her blood pressure was so low 10 anesthesiologists had to have an emergency conference call to figure out how to knock her out for horrible surgery without killing her. The hospital staff has no idea how she is alive.
Wow, I just can't believe how many people have encountered this. Glad your friend pulled through and hope she's recovered. I take some comfort that it's apparently normalish to think abdominal pain is gastro rather than exploded lady bits bleeding out. I wish I'd asked on the blood loss…I had two transfusions after. I don't remember the anesthesiologist being concerned about knocking me out, and I was conscious and signing my own waivers and stuff, but by that point I would've killed if it would've gotten me a general faster and if I could have stood up.
She's a trooper; while in and out of consciousness, she cracked jokes about not liking those panties anyway as they shredded her clothes off of her in the ER. She's doing fine after a pretty grueling recovery period. Her mom came to live with her and her husband for a month and she got lots of strong opiates and bed rest. She's volunteering for the Smithsonian now.
The hospital staff told her she lost at least 2.5 Liters of blood into her abdomen. Like I said, they're completely baffled that she is alive.
Can't these globs be SOLD? I see $$$$$$$$$.
Needs marketing, traders, speculators.
Miscarriage Bubble…hmm…needs a better name.
Fetus futures? Wall Street quivers in anticipation.
Another opportunity for Dr. Ducks nifty feotal embalming and burial kits only $19.99. Comes with near microscopic casket (100% genuine aluminum foil)
NO FETUS CAN BEAT US!
Women who have miscarriages in hospitals would have to sign forms deciding how the hospital should handle the remains, by cremation, interment or burial.
So, now that corporations have been granted full citizenship, would this also be the same procedure if someone starts to form one and then decides not to?
Since they want a glop of goo to be declared a person while daddy is still on top of mommy screaming "Oh yeah, oh yeah baby", then wouldn't a corporation be a legal "person" as soon as someone just thought of it?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Think of the subsidiaries! Subsidiaries are people, too!
Life is precious, sanctified even. It therefore follows that a woman who miscarries (spontaneously aborts as they call it in the hospital) would gather up the sopping clumps and attempt to put a suit and tie on them before laying out $10K or so for a tiny casket.
Nothing is more fun than asking anti-abortion fundies to stipulate exactly how many fetus funerals they have attended.
This kind of law is an attempt to tell sarcastic wags like myself to fuck off and die, that they have the power, and they'd rather force people to carry out preposterous funerals rather than admit a lack of logical consistency in their underlying world view.
The mortuary lobby is strong in this state. For cremation do you have to buy a $10,000
pine boxcasket to place little fetus before lighting the fires?Direct cremations, those w/o funerals, involve corrugated (cardboard) boxes.
Ah, the $2,500 special boxes.
Funeral directors have dry cleaning bills too. And maintenance on equipment you don't even want to know about.
Save the santorum!
Take the same actions as the Pentagoons do for parts of our honored dead from the warz … incinerate, then dump in a land fill.
What the fuck is the difference between "burial" and "interment"?
I'm assuming "interment" in this conext refers to putting the remains in a mausoleum rather than a grave.
Agree, but I think you mean columbarium (as in a place for interment of cremated remains) rather than mausoleum, which is a really big-ass tomb.
Well, perhaps "crypt" would be more accurate, but I meant a building where whole bodies rather than ashes are preserved. I figured columbariums were included in the "cremation" option.
I think if I were a woman in todays USA I would just get a tubal ligation and tell the man to fuck off….that or go lesbo where no repoduction option exists unless a turkey baster and my willingness are involved.
I would for real get a tubal ligation (I don't have any children and don't want any), but it's a fairly complicated medical procedure ($$$) that is generally not at all covered by insurance if it's not "medically" necessary.
Have you checked with your insurance? Some actually cover it as "birth control.". Mine did (and New York State's program for lower income women does, so I imagine it's not the only state)…with normal deductibles (which I planned for by putting extra money in a flex account for that year…had it done in January). I had it done a month after my 31st birthday, unmarried, and childless. Unfortunately, MisterBarry has bionic sperm, so the fallopian terrorist happened a year and a half later. But, I'm definitely a freakish statistic in that regard and wouldn't change that I got fixed and can fuck like a bunny without pumping my body full of hormones forever to avoid babies. =)
WHERE ARE THE JOBS!?!?
Will there be a fourth option for disposal that reads, "Oral consumption of remains by sponsor of this legislation"?
No more sex during pregnancy, guys and girls. That would be sexual assault on an infant, or at least, exposing yourself to the little guy in there.
So if you fuck when you are pregnant and the babby inside is a grl and she gets pregnant then is that like an incest?
Yuck! Even Sandusky waits until they can talk…
You sure about that?
Erections have consequences.
Brilliant. Thank you.
Gene Simmons is coming out with a new line of Kiss Mini-Caskets, for when you didn't pull out in time.
Most abortions are spontaneous and neither the woman nor any medical professional is involved. Of course, this makes God the biggest killer of babies in history, but let's leave the Big G out of this when there's political spoils on the line.
And they should be forced to name their "fail babies" and create a college savings account for them and … all in the name of Jesus, of course.
When you have a degree from Liberty University; isn't that like having a degree from Hogwarts?
Hogwarts students have to know how to spell.
[Pardon my language in this post, but I'm beyond angry at this.]
Jesus fucking Christ. My wife had two miscarriages in Michigan hospitals. Both times she was absolutely devastated. If some weasel had handed her a form like this it might have pushed her over the edge. Then I would have had to break the weasel's jaw, and I'd get prison time,… It would be bad.
I will say this. Chichikovna is also a professor at a medical school/teaching hospital here that is typically rated one of the very best in the country. Hospitals get that way by having top rate physicians. Recruiting her to come here was a challenge for the school because she also had an offer from Harvard/Brigham and Women's, and Harvard Med School grads like her never want to go anywhere but Harvard. We've built a wonderful life here, and we don't want to leave, but I fucking guarantee you that she would refuse to allow any of her patients to be given a form like this, and if her wishes were ignored, she would take the Harvard job and Michigan would lose an excellent physician. That would be the breaking point. And I'm sure she would be far from the only one.
Apparently the hard core right wing loons in the Michigan legislature don't realize, or don't care, that as they keep heaping on these things, trying to turn Michigan into a Calvinist theocracy, those people who would prefer not to live in a Calvinist theocracy are going to start moving out. And once good physicians start leaving, it will be hard to retain even those among the good ones who are OK with living in a Calvinist theocracy – exoduses of talented people tend to become torrential past a certain tipping point. So they'll be left with hospitals employing only those physicians who aren't good enough get jobs outside of the state. Maybe that's what they want, but personally I can see a downside.
I am so sorry for you both… and really glad that the State of Michigan didn't make it harder for you.
Thanks. It was many years ago now, and though it was painful at the time, it doesn't trouble us anymore. But it was painful at the time. Not in any of the ways or for any of the reasons that Pro-lifers claim women must feel, but it was painful. Enough that the very idea of someone handing Chichikovna such a form at that time makes me clench my fist instinctively.
Yes, sorry for what you two went through.
I'm sorry for the pain you both suffered. These shit-fuck Religislators could use punches in the junk from all the horrified and livid people. You make an excellent point on the brain-drain issue, though. And it extends into all professions…good breeds good, but people with options won't pick a shitty place to work and live. I don't want some Liberty U grad as my doctor…I'll take the Harvard doc every time (and so will all the fucking fundie nutjobs when it's their body or their family member in need), and that's stuff folks will consider when weighing where to live.
There are two kinds I hate — those who hate others's culture, & the Dutch.
Women, of course, are entitled to any level of grief over a miscarriage, from none (whew, dodged that bullet) to deep despair. However, I don't see what can be gained by forcing them to think of the lost pregnancy as more of a child than less.
Will Michigan's proposed law be extended to amputed limbs and removed organs? What about liposuction wastes? Those cells contain all the DNA of a complete human being and should be handled with dignity as well.
That's what I remind the dumb crassholes whenever possible but funny to tell I never get an answer on that from them. It could be they don't know what DNA is or maybe they are working on that one next up.
Ummm – what about the majority of first trimester miscarriages – women who don't even realize they're pregnant yet and think it's just their usual (perhaps late in this case) period? Are they required to get it back out of the toilet and bury it?
And um – what about abortion clinics? Or has Michigan already outlawed all of those?
No jarring or canning option? I've got some left over from the last time I made preserves.
What, mixing them in with peach preserves and serving them on toast with a nice muscat isn't considered respectful anymore? Or do you just have to use a certain vintage?
OK, I'm calming myself down. Enough to imagine heading off the clipboard holder myself outside the room. And when he asked me to sign the form, telling him "Well, I'm certainly willing to piss on it. Does a urine stain with my DNA in it constitute a signature?"
Fantasy is a real blessing.
I'm glad they took the time to require that this super necessary law include a specific brand of tissues be distributed. Bravo..
By the way Kirsten, your sign is misleading.
Instead of whites <— —> fetuses, it should be
white males and fetuses <— —> everyone else.
In TN they send the dead baby home with you in a styrofoam cooler.
http://tinyurl.com/83t6k5p
again, how does this create jobs? oh forgot, undertaker, funeral director? crematoriums?
CREEEEEEEE MAH TORRRRRRRR EE AH
LEAVE ME ALONE
good think Michigan doesn't have anything else to worry about.
Why don't they just give them voting rights, to be managed by their mothers under proxy? No? Don't want all those probable Democrats having two votes?
How ironic is it that the "fetal remains" in the dumpster turned out to be left over Godfather Pizza?
Until the Reich Wing outlaws all contraception (and they're trying!) they'll pass legislation (is that like passing a kidney stone?) that requires anyone who purchases a condom to purchase a small casket with it. Used condom must be deposited in itsy-bitsy casket and taken to a funeral director for proper disposal, with certification sent to the State department of Checking on All Acts that We Don't Like. Creates jobs and protects one-half of the possibly incipient human. Win-win.
I am suprised there is no "Jarbaby" option. Little Frankie deserves to be at the Thanksgiving table too.
Maybe that sign refers to the fetus' wrapper?
The mind boggles.
And this new law makes homeless dumpster divers the "eyes and ears" of the law.
REMEMBER YOU PATHETIC, SMELLY, HOMELESS BUMS–IF YOU SEE A FETUS IN THERE NEXT TO THAT HALF-EATEN TURKEY SANDWICH—SAY SOMETHING…
Yea, though I walk through the <flush!>
i wonder if they want to make a burial process for amputees:" here's your headstone, we put in your leg/arm…once you die we bury the rest as well. "(?)…. so you can bring flowers to your bodyparts. why don't we all start it for our hair cuts and nail clippings too?
Oh yeah. Three years of undiagnosed infertility, dozens of painful, expensive, and highly invasive tests, and several rounds of Clomid which wreaked havoc on her body. Only to result in an ectopic which nearly killed her and resulted in the loss of 50% of her already sketchy reproductive system. Same for a colleague who had a molar pregnancy (I don't advise the menfolk Google this), and is now on cancer watch for the indefinite future. I'm sure a discussion about a Christian burial for the mass of nearly- deadly cells was exactly what those ladies needed.
How awful! And unfair…I'd prefer not to grow a beard, but aside from hormonal regulation, I have no use for not-for-fun parts of my reproductive system, and came out with all the bits (except for some extra fallopian removal, for good measure). Admittedly, I seem to have some nasty internal scar tissue to go with the visible scar and some other minor weirdness, but my worst aftermath is a totally-in-my-head sensation in my neck (who knew, there's a nerve or something that when your abdomen fills with blood and it pushes on your diaphragm causes a weird neck pain?)…and I hold out hope that even these minor things will improve since it'll only be 5 months Monday.
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