The attorneys also argued that the laws 'coerce pregnant people who obtain abortion and miscarriage management care to engage in rituals that are associated with the death of a person.' This part is especially notable because, while we have a cultural script for what to do when someone dies, the state doesn't mandate how we handle the funeral. And when we're dealing with a liminal state of pregnancy and loss, everything gets more complicated because you're not burying or cremating a fully grown human.
The idea behind this provision in HB 1337 in part was to force people who had abortions into thinking about the consequences. But the law also applies to people who never intended to end their pregnancies. It was challenged by three women who remained anonymous and went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which upheld the part of the state law that required clinics to bury or cremate remains.
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