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Zijn ze ook voor verplichten begrafenissen van foetussen? Verplicht kijken naar een ultrasound? Defunden van planned parenthood met een HIV uitbraak tot gevolg? Voor oneerlijk belonging bij gelijk werk?
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But Pence signed one anti-abortion bill in March of this year that was so extreme, even some pro-life Republicans opposed it. And it was eventually blocked from going into effect by a federal judge for violating women's right to choose.
The law did something truly bizarre. It would have basically forced women to seek funerary services for a fetus -- whether she'd had an abortion or a miscarriage, and no matter how far along the pregnancy was.
The law Pence backed would have required all fetal tissue to be cremated or buried, an unprecedented measure in state law. The law also banned abortion if the fetus had a "disability" -- which would have denied women the right to end a pregnancy even in case of serious fetal anomalies.
The wording of the burial provision meant that technically, even if a woman had a miscarriage at eight weeks of pregnancy at home, she would have to keep the blood and tissue, take it to a hospital or clinic, and have it buried or cremated by a funeral home. The law would have also dramatically increased the cost of an abortion, since providers would have had to spend time and money on arranging the funerary services.
And since about half of miscarriages happen shortly after a fertilized egg is implanted, and occur at roughly the same time a woman would expect her period, many women could be having a miscarriage and not even know it -- and thus, technically be violating the law if they didn't cremate or bury the resulting tissue.