Texas requires funerals for fetuses now

[LJay]

I suggest that chicken farmers in Texas be required to hold funerals for all of the eggs they candle and find have fetuses inside.

The law referredd to above is an anvious attempt to discourage abortion in yet another way. I have no doubt that the funeral industry is delighted and adding up the profits right away.

There is small grave in Indiana where the body of my stillborn brother was buried. He was stillborn, not aborted.. There is a difference. Anti-abortion campaigners seem not to be able to undersand the difference. Until they do, grandstanding politicians, the funeral industry and misguided religionists will continue to thrive on each other.

[Pix]

As someone raised in Texas, and having paid attention to the state politics, I can add that the state does not give a damn about children. This is all part of being holier than thou (when it suits them to be) and punishing women for having sex (men, too, but more the women, what they want is for children in Christian heterosexual marriage with men ruling the roost, and they'll punish men who divorce their wives, too--or maybe child support is just their way to avoid more welfare demands).

Once a child is born, that mother and child are SOL. It's one of the worst states for abuse that the state winks at more often than not, and welfare is problematic (if Texas shows any concern for children once born then it's to "protect" them from transgendered in school restrooms, another convenient religious point, but bullying, abuse, poverty, sickness, and things like that afflicting children don't bother them). Generally speaking, they'll take the kids if you smoke pot and put the kids in an abusive home where they get the crap kicked out of them, but don't care if you kick the crap out of your kids while drunk.

And if you wind up on the streets as I did (in part due to what the state did), you're automatically criminalized and treated as garbage. Plenty of kids are fined as as prostitutes and then released to turn more tricks, that is the state will pimp your underage ass (though pimps and such will provide false ID, but cops and judges can tell when a 13-year-old is not the 21-year-old his or her ID claims). The prison complex also extorted a 17-year-old for a crime he didn't commit to make him pay payments, and didn't even care that he was living on the streets and stealing, just so long as he made payments.

To hell with their crocodile tears over the unborn.

[NativeSon]

For these people a foetus has all the rights in the world...until it's born. Then it becomes "Pull yerself up by yer bootstraps ya lazy little bray-att!" These are same folks who scoff at the idea of something as benign as paid maternity/paternity leave, and actively attempt to undermine organizations like Planned Parenthood. You just can't win with these social/religious conservatives.

[kindy64]

So, forcing a company to pay for maternity leave is benign...

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means

[Insertnamehere]

Under purely legal terms, that fetus was not a natural let alone a legal entity, I can't see under which legal frame anywhere can a State government force third parties to treat it as such.

I mean, if the parents want to, sure, they could be allowed to. Otherwise, you're just forcing people to dish money (and not little money) on a group of cells that:

1) probably never got to be a fully developed human (as far as a bady is when born).

2) has no legal existence

[NativeSon]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means

Refresh my memory. I don't recall using that word anytime recently.

[NativeSon]

Still waiting for an answer from Kindy.

When did I keep using that word?

[NativeSon]

Trump pledges 'paid family leave' in first speech to Congress

Will the socially conservative among us ignore this too?

[Cowboy]

I think the workers should organize and negotiate with the companies, I have very little faith in Trump or his future policies.

[NativeSon]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means

What a liar.