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Jeremiah G. Dys: Parents need way to grieve

By Alliance Alert

Jeremiah G. Dys, president and general counsel of The Family Policy Council of West Virginia, writing in the Charleston Gazette: "Faced with an agonizing loss, Cassandra and her family began making plans for mourning little Bobby James. But, because of a loophole in West Virginia's law, they were not allowed to do so. Because Bobby did not weigh enough, the law did not allow for the hospital to issue a birth certificate. Because they could not get a birth certificate, they were unable to get a death certificate. And without a death certificate, Cassandra and Jason would not be able to bury their son." | The Family Policy Council of West Virginia press release.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).