Ohio lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require aborted fetuses to be either buried or cremated.
The bills come after Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office announced that aborted fetuses from three Planned Parenthood facilities in Ohio ended up in landfills or incinerators.
Under House Bill 417, filed last week, fetal remains in Ohio could be disposed of only through burial or cremation. Each woman who undergoes an abortion would have to pick one of the two options.
The abortion clinic would be required to pay the disposal costs and document the pregnant woman’s decision in their medical records, which would remain private.
A second bill introduced Wednesday, House Bill 419, would require the director of the Ohio Department of Health to draw up a rule requiring fetal remains from abortion to be buried, cremated, or disposed of by “an approved hospital type of incineration.”
Currently, the state health department requires that an aborted fetus “shall be disposed of in a humane manner.”
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