Texas Health Officials to Hear Concerns About Fetal Remains Rule

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Texas Health Officials to Hear Concerns About Fetal Remains Rule

• by Alexa Ura
• Aug. 4, 2016
• 1Comment

Health care providers, funeral operators and women's rights activists on Thursday are expected to tell Texas health officials that a rule requiring the cremation or burial of fetal remains will do little to improve public health and could be burdensome to women.

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Federal court blocks Texas fetal remains burial rule

U.S. District Court Judge Sam Sparks ruled Texas cannot require health providers to bury or cremate fetuses, delivering another blow to state leaders in the reproductive rights debate.

 

by Marissa EvansJan. 27, 2017 5:05 PM

^{Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.}

 

U.S. District Court Judge Sam Sparks ruled Texas cannot require health providers to bury or cremate fetuses, delivering another blow to state leaders in the reproductive rights debate.

 

On Friday afternoon, Sparks wrote in his ruling that Texas Department of State Health Services’ fetal remains burial rule’s vagueness, undue burden and potential for irreparable harm were factors in his decision. He also wrote that the state had proposed the new rule “before the ink on the Supreme Court's opinion in Whole Woman's Health was dry.”

 

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/01/27/fetal-remains-ruling/