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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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[ccmom.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Hope it's okay if I take what you've started and pass the word along.

It's been 3 hours now since I first read about this and I'm still having problems thinking clearly. I made my first mistake of going out to tell my husband about it and he just stared at me. Sat in his chair and stared at me like I was crazy. He couldn't understand why I was so upset. I gave up on that.

I have finally calmed down enough to the point where when I think about this I just want to start crying. Everything about this is wrong and there is no justification that could be explained that would ever make it right. I still don't know what to say. So in my efforts to help, I'm doing my part to educate others. Because I can't stop this deep intense feeling of fear and dread when I think about what the future holds for us.

To everyone who's ever felt the heartbreak of a miscarriage, my deepest sympathies. To everyone who's ever made the hard 'choice' of abortion, my deepest sympathies. It's never easy to lose a child regardless of how it happens, and to try to make criminals out of woman because of their loss is just the ultimate crime that could be committed.

Again, I hope it's okay that I'm plagurizing your journal entry, I just couldn't word it better.

Michelle

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

First of all, I can't take credit for starting it; I simply passed on the news from someone else. And I know for a fact that her intention was that as many people spread the word as possible, so please post it elsewhere and pass it on!

Second: yes, absolutely -- I completely share your outrage. The law this bill proposes is not only ridiculous, an invasion of privacy of the worst kind, misogynistic, and utterly unenforceable, it purports to fill a gap (the protection of so-called "trash can" babies) that is already covered by Virginia Law. In other words, it's redundant and pointless.

And that doesn't even touch on my thoughts about the proposer's hidden agenda...