It’s pretty easy to understand—even if you haven’t been through it—that having a miscarriage can be profoundly traumatic.
So when three Republican lawmakers recently said women going through a medication abortion or managing a miscarriage at home should be required to collect pregnancy tissue in a medical waste bag, it didn’t go over too well.
Framed as a “clean water bill,” the proposal faced public and political backlash. Because of that outcry, the bill’s authors removed the “catch kit” requirement.
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