Posted on 11/04/2019 12:58:54 PM PST by Morgana
A Pennsylvania lawmaker described a miscarried baby as “a mess on a napkin” Tuesday in response to a bill requiring the dignified disposal of aborted and miscarried babies.
State Rep. Wendy Ullman, a pro-abortion Democrat representing the Bucks County area, made the insensitive comment before the Pennsylvania House Health Committee passed House Bill 1890 in a 15-10 party-line vote.
The bill would require health care facilities to bury or cremate the remains of unborn babies who died in abortions or miscarriages. It does not require burial/cremation for babies miscarried at home.
“An early miscarriage is just some mess on a napkin,” Ullman said, according to a video of the meeting shared by the Pennsylvania Family Council.
Ullman implied that miscarried and aborted babies are not valuable enough to be buried or cremated, saying, “And I’m not sure people would agree that this is something that we want to take to the point of ritual, either cremation or interment.” She was endorsed by Planned Parenthood during her election campaign, and she voted against the bill.
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, a pro-life Republican from Beaver County who supports the bill, expressed outrage on Twitter after hearing Ullman’s comments.
“One of my colleagues just said a miscarriage is a ‘mess on a napkin.’ I literally can’t believe this is actually happening …” Bernstine wrote.
He told LifeNews that the bill is common-sense legislation that gives parents the opportunity to provide a dignified disposition for their unborn child. He said opposition to it exposes the “radicalism” of the pro-abortion agenda.
“It’s disappointing for a group of people who call themselves pro-choice to take the decision away from parents what to do with their deceased baby,” Bernstine said.
Tom Shaheen, vice president for policy for Pennsylvania Family Institute, called Ullman’s comments “callous” and “heartless” toward families who have lost a child.
“A miscarriage, no matter how early, does not result in a ‘mess on a napkin’ but the loss of a child,” Shaheen said. “Each human life deserves respect, even when lost at an early stage in development.”
The pro-life organization thanked committee Chairwoman Kathy Rapp (R-Warren), lead sponsor Rep. Frank Ryan (R-Lebanon) and all of the lawmakers who supported it.
“The remains of human beings should be treated better than medical waste. Rep. Frank Ryan’s bill is a compassionate effort to help offer some closure to many mothers and families in Pennsylvania,” Shaheen added.
Ryan also expressed thanks to the committee for supporting the dignified disposition of babies’ remains.
“It brought back so many painful memories of the three children that we lost,” he wrote on Twitter after the vote.
Similar legislation has passed in other parts of the country. In 2016, Indiana passed a law under then-Gov. Mike Pence to help ensure that aborted babies’ remains are properly disposed of and not sold. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law earlier this year. Texas leaders are fighting to defend a similar burial law in court in their state.
Action: Contact Pennsylvania state lawmakers and ask them to support HB 1890.
Lovely. Just, lovely.
Keep it classy, Dem Fems! Blech!
Just five minutes and I don't need a baseball bat.
Forgive them Lord for they know not what they do.
These are the people who eventually set up death camps.
Yep. "They aren't really human" is a very slippery slope.
They love abortion when it’s other’s being aborted. We live among pure evil.
You may have to take a number......
We’ll supply the bat.
It’s just going to cause a mess on a napkin or a few.
I had 4 early miscarriages, between 1990 and 1996, and nobody really cared except for my husband. It’s about time ppl actually began to value the lives lost in miscarriages.
Ullman is a $hitstain on a napkin. It should be promptly flushed down a toilet.
When this person finally dies our Good Lord will have to have a quiet conversation with her/him.
Is abortion unacceptable to other faiths besides Catholicism or is it simply considered a personal choice my non-Catholics?
I've read and seen that although abortion is legal in Japan women do mourn and mourn deeply for their aborted babies. There are all kinds of places/monuments/altars and such, for them, candles, prayers and many tears.
I don't think that so many women could be simply "faking it." Their tears seemed real.
God bless you and your husband for all that pain.
Having lost 3 babies to miscarriage, I will bring an aluminum bat if I can have a few swings when you are done-that bitch is just barely a human being...
“These are the people who eventually set up death camps.”
Yup.
She’s just a mess behind the dais.
Do me a solid, and give her a good shot in the chops for me. Make sure it’s a mess on a napkin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDt_vXOtD48
Here’s the video - you can see her lining up her words. She had plenty of time to think about what she was saying.
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