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| Topic | Do you think women should be required to have a funeral if they get an abortion? |
| Daffadilio 07/15/18 1:00:52 PM #17: | As someone who had to work with/add preservatives to products of conceptions (abortions) and missed abortions (miscarriages), I can say that the majority of the time youd be burying shredded tissue in a plastic evacuation container. One time we did have to clean that and wrap it up for a family that did want to bury it and I can say its more traumatizing than anything, plus is hazardous to the environment seeings how hospitals usually have to preserve specimen in formalin for 2 weeks before they can release it to you. Even washing tissue with alcohol, trace amounts of formalin will remain. We did see fully formed fetuses but that was maybe once a month compared to the 20-50 POCs wed get a day. So overall this would traumatizing for the parents (in order to shame them), frustrating and gross for lab workers having to deal with the specimen, and bad for the environment. Source: I worked in surgical pathology and all abortion/miscarriage remains from our hospital had to go through us to be logged, preserved, and stored in case doctors later wanted to do any tissue examination. --- You remind me of the times when I knew who I was... ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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