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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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[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...