New Federal Bill Would Require Abortionists to Provide Burial or Cremation for Aborted Babies

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women take the abortion pill at home and flush their deceased babies down the toilet.

A bill introduced in Congress last week aims to end this dehumanizing practice by providing for the collection and dignified burial or cremation of the aborted babies. 

The bill, H.R. 10954, is called the “Don’t Flush Babies Act” and has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. 

The bill would do two things.

First, it would require warning language on every package of abortion drugs, including the abortion pill mifepristone. 

The label notice would be required to say, “DO NOT FLUSH THE FETUS OR SOLID MEDICAL WASTE GENERATED BY USE OF THIS DRUG.”

Near the notice, the package would be required to show an image of a baby at ten weeks gestation, with a head, arms and legs, as well as a toilet, inside a red circle with a diagonal slash. 

Second, the measure would require abortion providers who prescribe, distribute or encourage the use of abortion drugs to provide each woman with a “catch kit.” 

The catch kit is designed to hold the human remains and medical waste produced during a chemical abortion. 

Mothers would return the used catch kits to their abortion providers, which the bill would require to arrange for the burial or cremation of human fetal remains.

Under the legislation, abortion providers who fail to provide or tamper with a catch kit would face up to five years in prison and fines of $20,000 to $150,000 for each offense.

H.R. 10954 would humanize babies that have lost their life by offering them a dignified burial. By requiring clinics to pay for the ethical disposal of fetal remains, the bill would also require abortionists take some small measure of responsibility for their part in the infant’s death.

The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research group, reports that abortion pills account for 64% of abortions in the United States. That’s nearly 674,000 babies aborted with the abortion pill each year. 

As more women undergo chemical abortions, advocates and lawmakers have voiced growing concerns about abortion drugs contaminating the water supply in the United States. 

As the Daily Citizen previously reported, a peer-reviewed study published in July found mifepristone, the primary drug used in chemical abortions, in drinking water samples from two American cities.

The presence of the drug in water samples raises questions about whether municipal water treatment systems can remove abortion-related chemicals that enter public water systems through human waste and through the human remains of chemically aborted babies. 

Abortion activists argue that raising concerns about water safety is meant to shame women. 

But there is nothing shameful about telling the truth. 

Human remains in this country are treated with care. We don’t flush the bodies of people we love down the toilet. Preborn babies deserve the same respect.