Feb.
10th
State Senate approves bill to allow objections to autopsies
The state Senate approved Thursday evening a bill that would allow families to stop autopsies based on religious objections.
Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, authored the bill in response to a court fight waged between the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office and the family of a New York man who died on Mount Rainier in December. The man, Brian Grobois, was an Orthodox Jew and his family argued an autopsy would run counter to his religious beliefs despite the insistence of Dr. Thomas Clark, the county’s chief medical examinier, that the examination was necessary and he had the legal authority …
