Without WANTING to enter the pathetic debate encouraged by Republican election tactical squads making women who already feel terrible about having a pregnancy terminated feel even WORSE by using their reproductive hard choices as a pawn in their efforts to keep rich white men in charge of our laws...here is a lovely homemade postcard mailed in 1905 I assume was used as a birth announcement.
The Republican House of Michigan passed a law last week requiring all fetal remains over 20 weeks be given a "proper burial" and that the cost be born by the woman who already feels terrible over the choice she had to make.
It requires all aborted fetuses after 8 weeks be buried, cremated or
interred under exactly the same guidelines as any dead body. The
cost of a burial or internment for an infant is an average of $4,600.
The cost of cremation for an infant ranges from $250 to $400. A fetus at 8 weeks is the size of a few paper clips.
That's right. The bill also makes any woman who has an abortion (be it your wife or your daughter) a criminal liable to prosecution if she has an abortion after 20 weeks. It does not indicate the cost of hiring a lawyer to bail your daughter out of jail and defend her against charges (presumably murder) in court. Would YOU like your daughter brought up on charges in a public court for having to have an abortion?
Handmade Postcard 1905 collection Jim Linderman
