The baby-dumping excuse comes from the guy who started the bill, and it's SUCH bullshit. There's nothing in it about already-born infants.
If they want to target baby-dumping, they need to DO THAT
The commenters at Kos said that VA already HAS baby-dumping laws.
The commenters at Metafilter and some other places felt that this was A) an attempt to make a miscarriage the same as an infant death; B) track those 'miscarriages' produced by EC and RU-486; and C) prepare for a post-Roe US in which all fertile women and pregnancies are tracked, such as happened in Romania (http://www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/psy_ocr9.asp).
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If they want to target baby-dumping, they need to DO THAT
The commenters at Kos said that VA already HAS baby-dumping laws.
The commenters at Metafilter and some other places felt that this was A) an attempt to make a miscarriage the same as an infant death; B) track those 'miscarriages' produced by EC and RU-486; and C) prepare for a post-Roe US in which all fertile women and pregnancies are tracked, such as happened in Romania (http://www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/psy_ocr9.asp).