Video: Shliach Testifies to Allow Autopsy Exemptions

After last month’s unbelievable tale of Hashgocha Protis, where a group of Askanim preventing the autopsy of a Jewish hiker who lost his way on Mt. Rainier and succumbed to hypothermia RL, Rabbi Zalman Heber, Shliach in Tacoma, WA, has been working together with the Seattle Jewish Federation in drafting new legislation that would prevent a medical examiner from performing an autopsy if it is against the family’s religiously held beliefs, unless there is a compelling public interest or foul play involved.

This week, Rabbi Heber had the opportunity to testify in front of the State Senate Judiciary committee for a proposed new bill regarding “Religious Objection to Autopsies.”