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[emmagrant01]

twistedchick reports on a bill proposed to the Virginia House that would require women to report miscarriages to the police, or face jail time. In addition, women who have miscarriages or abortions would have a great deal of their personal information sent to the state. Time to break out that letter-writing pen...

ETA: More about the issue on Metafilter and Chez Miscarriage.

And here is a link to the bill itself.

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It's especially ridiculous considering that Virginia law apparently already covers the case of "trashcan babies", which this bill is purportedly about. What miscarriages have to do with a tiny number of women who give birth to otherwise healthy babies and then abandon them, is beyond me.

Which seems to imply that the motive is something else altogether...