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[eirias]

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.

Comments

[thekat03.livejournal.com]

ow. brain. hurt. muchly.
why do they want to criminalize failing to report such a natural and relatively frequent occurence as miscarriage, especially when there is no requirement to report the antecedent pregnancy?
how are women expected to be able to do this, seeing as many miscarriages happen without the woman even knowing she's pregnant?

[rms10.livejournal.com]

Dare I ask how you're supposed to prove you've had a miscarriage?

[cognative.livejournal.com]

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.