modified birth certificate for miscarriages?
Tue Jun 6 14:05:19 EDT 2017
Florida To Offer 'Certificates Of Nonviable Birth' For MiscarriagesJune 06, 2017
Florida is set to become the first state to issue modified birth certificates to women who have miscarriages. Starting July 1, women whose pregnancies end after just nine weeks will be able to request a "certificate of nonviable birth" from the Florida Department of Health.
Florida law to give miscarriage certificatesBRENDAN FARRINGTON, AP
Published 6:59 p.m. ET June 2, 2017 | Updated 7:06 p.m. ET June 2, 2017
Florida will become the first state to issue what's essentially a birth certificate to women who've had miscarriages, an idea that received broad support among Democrats and Republicans despite concerns from the National Organization for Women that it was an attempt to define life for fetuses that couldn't survive outside the womb. Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill titled the "Grieving Families Act" Wednesday that will allow the state to start issuing "certificates of nonviable birth" beginning July 1 if parents request them. They would be available to women whose pregnancies end after nine weeks and before 20 weeks of gestation.
There was only one vote against the bill:Democratic Rep. Richard Stark, the only lawmaker to vote against the nonviable birth certificates said he was concerned that the bill was a backdoor way to get into the argument of defining when life begins, but there was a second, more personal reason he opposed the bill. Stark was adopted as an infant in New York and still can't get an original copy of his birth certificate.
He also sponsored a bill to unseal birth certificates of adults adopted as children and it went nowhere, which made voting to give fetuses a certificate that much more unpalatable.
"They get a certificate. I'm almost 65 years old - I can't get my birth certificate," said Stark. "It was almost like a slap in the face to me because I couldn't even get my bill heard."
I've needed copies of my birth certificate twice for my current job, and I'd need it to renew my drivers license if I ever let it expire. How can we deny living, breathing people their birth certificates when more and more anti-immigrant laws require them?[Republican Rep. Bob Cortes, the bill sponsor] said he was inspired by his wife, Virginia, who runs a nonprofit organization that turns donated wedding dresses into burial gowns for stillborn children and babies that die soon after birth.
That last bit sounds really creepy to me.
Florida law effective 2017/07/01.
certs available 9-20 weeks of pregnancy
"spontaneous expulsion" ; not available for abortions
certs have already been available after 20 weeks.
I hope I don't come off as insensitive, but if there's a miscarriage, there's not a birth. So a modified birth certificate for people who aren't born. (Are you a person if you weren't born?)
Should we have modified diplomas for drop-outs?
Modified death certificates for permanent vegetative comas?
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Florida To Offer 'Certificates Of Nonviable Birth' For MiscarriagesJune 06, 2017
Florida is set to become the first state to issue modified birth certificates to women who have miscarriages. Starting July 1, women whose pregnancies end after just nine weeks will be able to request a "certificate of nonviable birth" from the Florida Department of Health.
Florida law to give miscarriage certificatesBRENDAN FARRINGTON, AP
Published 6:59 p.m. ET June 2, 2017 | Updated 7:06 p.m. ET June 2, 2017
Florida will become the first state to issue what's essentially a birth certificate to women who've had miscarriages, an idea that received broad support among Democrats and Republicans despite concerns from the National Organization for Women that it was an attempt to define life for fetuses that couldn't survive outside the womb. Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill titled the "Grieving Families Act" Wednesday that will allow the state to start issuing "certificates of nonviable birth" beginning July 1 if parents request them. They would be available to women whose pregnancies end after nine weeks and before 20 weeks of gestation.
There was only one vote against the bill:Democratic Rep. Richard Stark, the only lawmaker to vote against the nonviable birth certificates said he was concerned that the bill was a backdoor way to get into the argument of defining when life begins, but there was a second, more personal reason he opposed the bill. Stark was adopted as an infant in New York and still can't get an original copy of his birth certificate.
He also sponsored a bill to unseal birth certificates of adults adopted as children and it went nowhere, which made voting to give fetuses a certificate that much more unpalatable.
"They get a certificate. I'm almost 65 years old - I can't get my birth certificate," said Stark. "It was almost like a slap in the face to me because I couldn't even get my bill heard."
I've needed copies of my birth certificate twice for my current job, and I'd need it to renew my drivers license if I ever let it expire. How can we deny living, breathing people their birth certificates when more and more anti-immigrant laws require them?[Republican Rep. Bob Cortes, the bill sponsor] said he was inspired by his wife, Virginia, who runs a nonprofit organization that turns donated wedding dresses into burial gowns for stillborn children and babies that die soon after birth.
That last bit sounds really creepy to me.
Florida law effective 2017/07/01.
certs available 9-20 weeks of pregnancy
"spontaneous expulsion" ; not available for abortions
certs have already been available after 20 weeks.
I hope I don't come off as insensitive, but if there's a miscarriage, there's not a birth. So a modified birth certificate for people who aren't born. (Are you a person if you weren't born?)
Should we have modified diplomas for drop-outs?
Modified death certificates for permanent vegetative comas?
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/892530.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]