Saturday, January 08, 2005
Fetal Prigs
A state delegate in Virginia has introduced a bill that would force mothers to report any miscarriage within 12 hours or face criminal charges. Of course, abortions will be one of them.
Sobell covers a lot of problems with the law (loss of women's privacy, no accounting for medical needs), but missed one: You're a woman who just lost her baby. You've gone through a horrible personal experience; you were about to bring a son or a daughter into the world, and now he's/she's gone before he or she ever had a chance. So now, you have to go and march down to a local government office and tell an official about your intensely personal trauma, or be charged with something tantamount to arson? Fuck. That.
What is wrong with Virginia?
Sobell covers a lot of problems with the law (loss of women's privacy, no accounting for medical needs), but missed one: You're a woman who just lost her baby. You've gone through a horrible personal experience; you were about to bring a son or a daughter into the world, and now he's/she's gone before he or she ever had a chance. So now, you have to go and march down to a local government office and tell an official about your intensely personal trauma, or be charged with something tantamount to arson? Fuck. That.
What is wrong with Virginia?
