I’m looking online, but haven’t found that Michigan has enacted a fetal tissue burial/cremation law that would apply. The one I do know in Texas was halted in a US District Court and is headed to the SCOTUS.
ETA:
This applies to all miscarriages, stillbirths, and fetal complications like hemorrhages, too, including what Michigan law calls “fetal remains.”
• 10 weeks+ are fetal remains
• 20 weeks+ is fetal death, including stillbirth and miscarriage
• 20 weeks or less is miscarriage
• I think we all know how abortion works, so those aren’t counted as miscarriages or abortions, so I won’t define the procedure here. All are recorded per law (vital statistics).
• Fetal deaths after 20 weeks must have a certificate of stillbirth filed
• Yes, parents can donate fetuses and fetal remains to scientific research
• No, donated remains wouldn’t go to a funeral home.
• Aborted fetal remains (defined above): “Unless the mother has provided written consent for research on the fetal remains under section 2688, a
physician who performs an abortion shall arrange for the final disposition of the remains” via “interment or cremation as those terms are defined in section 2 of the cemetery regulation act, 1968 PA 251, MCL 456.522, or by incineration by a person other than a cemetery registered under the cemetery regulation act.” (ie: funeral home, I presume?)
ETA 2: (Including this, as this info
might become relevant to the Detroit funeral homes. But it might not. We don’t know for sure yet.)
• “Disposal of fetal remains resulting from an abortion may occur without the supervision of a funeral director.”
• “This section does not require a physician to discuss the final disposition of the fetal remains with the mother before performing the abortion, nor does it require a physician to obtain authorization from the mother for the final disposition of the fetal remains upon completion of the abortion.”
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(qighxa45zduz5a45ur4yeqrr))/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-368-1978-2-28.pdf
