Chapter 85 of the Laws of 1989, 4 May 1989
Annual Review of Population Law 16: 43
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12344420 Document Number: 383847
This North Carolina legislation provides the following: "The Commission for Health Services shall adopt rules to ensure that all facilities authorized to terminate pregnancies, and all medical or research laboratories or facilities to which the remains of terminated pregnancies are sent by facilities authorized to terminate pregnancies, shall dispose of the remains in a manner limited to burial, cremation, or approved hospital type of incineration. Rules adopted pursuant to this section shall provide that the obligation to dispose of the remains of terminated pregnancies by a facility authorized to terminate pregnancies ceases as to any remains of terminated pregnancies that the facility has sent to a medical or research laboratory or facility."