Anti-abortion activists like to say that it's all about preventing "murder," but it's awfully easy to see this most recent craziness as evidence that this campaign is really about control over female fertility: the VA legislature is considering a bill that would
require that women report all miscarriages (naturally ocurring) or be liable to criminal prosecution. In fact, if they are busy
mourning their loss of a pregnancy and forget for 12 hours, it's too late and they're already in trouble.
[And what about all those fetuses lost before the woman even knew she was pregnant?! (which happens in 30-50% of conceptions)]
This is sickening.
(via Medley)Update: The publicity of this story achieved some good: the sponsor of the bill is planning to
spell out clearly that he intends the criminalization to apply only to full-term babies delivered outside a doctor's care. They intend it as a way to punish those who abandon their babies after birth, not those who deliver prematurely.
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