From Chez Miscarriage via Apostropher.
Representative John Cosgrove has recently introduced a bill to the Virginia legislature that will make it a misdemeanor crime for any woman who's experienced a miscarriage - at any stage of gestation - to fail to report that miscarriage to local law enforcement personnel within twelve hours.
Our friend Maura is trying to call attention to this important issue; she's written about the bill here. As she explains, the information a woman will be forced to provide to law enforcement will include (but will not be limited to) her social security number, her race, her educational background, her marital status, the extent of her prenatal care, and her full reproductive history.
Right.
To the cops.
Our friend Maura is trying to call attention to this important issue; she's written about the bill here. As she explains, the information a woman will be forced to provide to law enforcement will include (but will not be limited to) her social security number, her race, her educational background, her marital status, the extent of her prenatal care, and her full reproductive history.
Right.
To the cops.
That's right folks. Another step in the Righteous Republican Right's political mandate to return women in the United States to chattel.
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