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In Virginia, it may soon be a criminal offense to fail to report a miscarriage to the police within twelve hours - regardless of gestational age. Here is the full text of the bill.

There is an essay on this topic at some progressive sites, including the Daily Kos and Democracy for Virginia. This really should not be a progressive women's issue - this should be a family issue. I can't imagine that any family of any ideological stripe wants to spend the first few hours after an early miscarriage filling out paperwork; and as some have pointed out, strict compliance with this law would necessitate that sexually active women report each and every menstrual cycle to the authorities, just to be sure.

Thanks to

leora for the heads-up.

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The only thing that surprises me, is that Georgia didn't think of it sooner.

strict compliance with this law would necessitate that sexually active women report each and every menstrual cycle to the authorities, just to be sure.

This should be done! I'm sure it would annoy the people who are for this bill.

If I'm in Virginia next year, and this bill is law, I'll do my best (tm) to report my periods to the authorities.

Such a waste of limited resources. Good grief.

Anybody know the likelihood of this making it out of committee?

I don't think it'll pass. A bit of an outcry is already raised, and it has too many utterly ludicrous aspects to it. So, I think it'll fail. I think something like this will only pass when nobody is noticing the attempt.