Unsurprisingly, many were horrified by Ullman’s remarks, and wasted no time responding.

In a response on Twitter, Ullman apologized for her cruel remarks, saying she “chose her words poorly.” She tweeted:

Many women and families find tremendous comfort and solace in ritual burial or cremation in the case of early miscarriages, but others do not. Some would choose donation for medical research, like my family friend, who I quoted in a committee meeting, saying, ‘So my loss can have meaning.’ In the discussion, which was on a bill that would require ritual burial or cremation following any miscarriage, I was in near-tears relaying a story of my family friend. This issue is intensely important to me, and that’s why I struggled for words. My words were poorly chosen, and I apologize. I remain steadfast that every single step of a medical process, including the handling of remains, should be decided by a patient and her doctor.

As it is, there is already a horrible stigma surrounding miscarriage; many women feel ashamed and blame themselves, and worse, their pain is often minimized by others. Most miscarriages take place during the first trimester, for example — and women are told their babies are, at this point, just tissue or blobs, not babies to be mourned and grieved.

READ: First trimester babies aren’t blobs of tissue — they’re amazingly complex

Many women have spoken out about how misinformed they are about what the process will be like; they are told it will be like a “heavy period,” as if they will just bleed a little and flush it all away. And much of this dehumanizing language is due to the abortion industry, which is masterful at semantics and wordplay. Instead of a preborn baby, for example, it is always a “fetus,” or the highly unscientific “blob of tissue” or even “product of conception.” But what people like Ullman seem to miss is that these are human beings, unmistakably so, even in the first trimester.

Ullman may not know or understand why bills like this one are necessary, but they are; abortion facilities cannot be trusted to dispose of fetal remains in a respectful, dignified manner. As undercover footage showed, abortion facility staffers in Detroit were putting the bodies of aborted children through garbage disposals, which then went into the Detroit sewer system. Other staffers and abortionists talked about being kicked out of funeral homes because their attitudes were so callous and disrespectful.

The body of a human being is not garbage to be thrown away, regardless of how small that person may have been. And for Ullman to further contribute to the stigma surrounding miscarriage by dismissing the very real pain women suffer, to describe it nothing more than mess on a napkin, solely in the name of protecting abortion, is unconscionable. Every mother who has ever suffered a miscarriage deserves better than that — and so do the children they have lost.

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Unsurprisingly, many were horrified by Ullman’s remarks, and wasted no time responding.

In a response on Twitter, Ullman apologized for her cruel remarks, saying she “chose her words poorly.” She tweeted:

Many women and families find tremendous comfort and solace in ritual burial or cremation in the case of early miscarriages, but others do not. Some would choose donation for medical research, like my family friend, who I quoted in a committee meeting, saying, ‘So my loss can have meaning.’ In the discussion, which was on a bill that would require ritual burial or cremation following any miscarriage, I was in near-tears relaying a story of my family friend. This issue is intensely important to me, and that’s why I struggled for words. My words were poorly chosen, and I apologize. I remain steadfast that every single step of a medical process, including the handling of remains, should be decided by a patient and her doctor.

As it is, there is already a horrible stigma surrounding miscarriage; many women feel ashamed and blame themselves, and worse, their pain is often minimized by others. Most miscarriages take place during the first trimester, for example — and women are told their babies are, at this point, just tissue or blobs, not babies to be mourned and grieved.

READ: First trimester babies aren’t blobs of tissue — they’re amazingly complex

Many women have spoken out about how misinformed they are about what the process will be like; they are told it will be like a “heavy period,” as if they will just bleed a little and flush it all away. And much of this dehumanizing language is due to the abortion industry, which is masterful at semantics and wordplay. Instead of a preborn baby, for example, it is always a “fetus,” or the highly unscientific “blob of tissue” or even “product of conception.” But what people like Ullman seem to miss is that these are human beings, unmistakably so, even in the first trimester.

Ullman may not know or understand why bills like this one are necessary, but they are; abortion facilities cannot be trusted to dispose of fetal remains in a respectful, dignified manner. As undercover footage showed, abortion facility staffers in Detroit were putting the bodies of aborted children through garbage disposals, which then went into the Detroit sewer system. Other staffers and abortionists talked about being kicked out of funeral homes because their attitudes were so callous and disrespectful.

The body of a human being is not garbage to be thrown away, regardless of how small that person may have been. And for Ullman to further contribute to the stigma surrounding miscarriage by dismissing the very real pain women suffer, to describe it nothing more than mess on a napkin, solely in the name of protecting abortion, is unconscionable. Every mother who has ever suffered a miscarriage deserves better than that — and so do the children they have lost.

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