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Jan. 7th, 2005 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Quick clarification on the Virginia story: I read the whole spiel at Daily Kos, and apparently what they're trying to do is target women who abandon babies in dumpsters. The problem is that the PROPOSED LAW does not target them. It's like saying that if anyone, anywhere, dies for any reason (heart attack? well-documented terminal illness? old age?), it's got to be reported to the homicide squad. If they want to target baby-dumping, they need to DO THAT, rather than force every single woman who ever miscarries at any stage of gestation, anywhere, to account for herself. You know, with words like "abandoning" and "receptacles not intended for babies, such as dumpsters, or the occasional birdbath."
Also, I just got back from class, and the professor raffled off her "desk copies" of our texts by having us choose a number between 1 and 100. Guess who won a brand new copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin? WHEE.
Also, I just got back from class, and the professor raffled off her "desk copies" of our texts by having us choose a number between 1 and 100. Guess who won a brand new copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin? WHEE.
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Date: 2005-01-07 01:37 pm (UTC)How are they going to enforce this? I have a friend who had two miscarriages last year. She wasn't even aware of the first one. It wasn't until she had the second one, that (with confirmation from her physician) that they realized that the earlier event had also been a miscarriage.
Many, many women have miscarriages very, very early in pregnancy and the embryo simply falls into the toilet or onto a pad and is gone with no one ever being the wiser.
I had a miscarriage in 1997. I had only just realized I was pregnant and pee'd on the stick. The next day, I started bleeding....and bleeding...and bleeding. I never bothered to report it. WHY would I?
Geez, some people really need to get their heads out of women's wombs.