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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A00611Relates to the disposition of fetal remains.
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Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Requires registration, reporting, and release of fetal remains for spontaneous fetal death at any gestational age, treating it as a birth and death with burial, entombment or cremation options directed by the gestational parent.
For the purposes of this article, a fetal death shall be considered as a birth and as a death except that, for a fetal death, separate birth and death certificates shall not be required to be prepared and recorded, except as provided in section forty-one hundred sixty-a of this title.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends fetal death registration and disposition rules to apply at any gestational age, requires informing the gestational parent of rights to direct burial/entombment/cremation of remains, treats fetal death as a birth and death for these purposes, and adds related provisions on release of remains and cadavers. This substantively addresses fetal personhood by extending legal recognition and burial-like duties to products of conception from any stage, which restricts abortion under the given guidelines even with exemptions for the parent.
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