Virginia wants to track miscarriages

[kairos12]

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/virginia-wingnuts-who-want-miscarriag

snip:

If a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year. At least, that’s what would have happened if a bill introduced by Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain (R) had become law

Looks like more female outreach by the Rethugs. What a bunch of flaming asshats.

[MichiganVote]

1. Back to the dark ages we go. Fine, put me in jail. Fuckers.

[femmocrat]

2. How often does that happen?

Just a guess, but I would think most miscarriages happen at home. Are doctors going to start making house calls now? Not likely!

This just shows how incredibly ignorant these repuke fetus-savers are. Yeah, a year in jail will teach those women!

[Butterbean]

8. Purely from what friends have told me over the years, fairly often.

I had a girlfriend tell me just a couple of days ago when talking about her miscarriage, "I just figured, 'hell, I'm miscarrying,' and put a pad on and went to work." Another girlfriend in college miscarried in the toilet at work, and then went back to work. It happens.

Are they going to start tracking when men discharge semen in a non-reproductive setting as well, and send them to jail if they don't report it? 'Cause every sperm is sacred and all that...

[gopiscrap]

3. I hope all women remember this sort of shit at election time!

[marmar]

4. There are those who are determined to repeal the 20th century.

[JaneyVee]

5. Virginia is for lovers! (of psychotic abortion bills)

[hrmjustin]

6. These people really hate women!

[Rectangle]

7. Maybe they'll just bring back the Pillory & Stock for women......

[onenote]

9. Mislead much?

Nice job tarring a whole state based on a stupid bill introduced by one stupid legislator four years ago and he withdrew the bill shortly thereafter.

Obenshain is a jerk, no doubt. But to say "Virginia wants to track miscarriages" because he proposed something stupid four years ago and it went nowhere is just a baseless, stupid slam against a state that has two Democratic Senators, voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, and has a 50/50 split in the state senate.

And yes Obenshain was nominated to be the repub nominee for Attorney General. By a repub convention attended by a grand total of 8000 delegates. And yes, his introduction of this bill should be used against him in the general election. But its simply not true that "Virginia wants" his bill to become law.

I'm curious what state you are from. I bet I could find a stupid bill that was introduced by someone in your state that went nowhere and then could mislabel your state as well.