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Representative Regas urges stricter enforcement after hospital fetal-remains practices; bill would create penalties
Summary
Representative Regas told the committee about personal losses and introduced a bill to ensure parents can obtain fetal remains after miscarriage or early pregnancy loss, increase enforcement and create civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance. Supporters said existing law requires hospitals to offer a disposition option but enforcement is
Representative Regas testified before the House Health Policy Committee in support of legislation that would require hospitals to honor parents' requests regarding fetal remains after miscarriage or early pregnancy loss and would create civil and criminal penalties for noncompliance.
Regas told the committee that hospital staff informed her in earlier miscarriages that the remains were treated as "medical waste" and would be incinerated, which she said prevented her from grieving in the way she wished. "I was already grieving. I was…
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