pegkerr | Virginia's proposed law: Have a Miscarriage, Go to JAIL? (Reply)

You've probably heard about this on your friends page already, but if you haven't, you should. The proposed bill would require Virginia women who suffer a miscarriage to report it within twelve hours to the police, and answer a bunch of impertinent questions, or risk going to jail. Class 1 misdemeanor, same as arson, statutory rape, stalking and providing alcohol to minors. Regardless of gestational age, mind you. I have a hard time believing this pinhead idea would actually pass, but then Virginia is the state which just passed a law which basically makes it illegal for gay partners to attempt to create documents and contracts to protect their partnership, and in fact interferes with gay couples doing estate planning, planning for medical emergency and holding joint real estate.

Every time I think that the Right has reached the limit of what they're capable of doing to people and that it can't possibly get any worse, by golly, they surprise me.

I gotta think this can't possibly pass. But a lot of laws have hit the books in the last year that I thought couldn't have possibly passed. The fact alone it's even being considered is appalling.

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