That was pence being paid by pro-lifers to try and stop fetal tissues from being used at all for science. Destroy the fetuses by law at abortion and there could be no stem cell work.
Pence's funerals for fetuses was ultra extreme. Also, there was something else no one should ever forget :
Though nobody should ever forget Pence's Trump enabling was worse than we thought. Woodward and Costa's book proves it. [...] Desperate to find a mechanism that would allow Pence to overturn the election in favor of his boss, Pence reportedly called Quayle, also from Indiana .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/09/dan-quayle-convinced-mike-pence-to-reject-trumps-coup.html , for advice. According to the book, Quayle definitively shut Pence down. “Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away.” https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=168863760 ,, his even more extreme consideration of the attempt to reinstall Trump in the presidency.
There is a plus for Quayle, for all wondering if there ever was one.
Back to Pence's penchant for fetus funerals
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a law this year that mandated funerals for fetuses
By Emily Crockett@emilycrockettemily@vox.com Updated Oct 3, 2016, 4:59pm EDT
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It’s no secret that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate, opposes abortion rights. Pence basically invented the Republican Party's war on Planned Parenthood while he was in Congress. He wants Roe v. Wade to be overturned. He signed every anti-abortion bill that crossed his desk as governor of Indiana.
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.