This is horrible! Please check out this link. The Neocons have gone stark raving mad.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/6/194434/1328
VA Legislative Sentry: Have a Miscarriage, Go to JAIL?
by Maura in VA
Thu Jan 6th, 2005 at 16:44:34 PST

Imagine the following scenario. You are at home alone at 8:00 on a Friday night. You are 8 weeks pregnant. All of a sudden, you begin to experience heavy cramping and bleeding. You realize with shock and sadness that you are probably experiencing a miscarriage. You are overwhelmed with grief and surprised by the intensity of physical pain involved. When your partner comes home, you break the sad news to him. Over the next few hours, you suffer pain, cramping, and intermittent bleeding. Exhausted, you finally fall asleep in your partner's arms around 4 AM. You sleep until noon.

Guess what? You just earned yourself up to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine. Why? Because you failed to call the cops and report your miscarriage within 12 hours.

True? Not yet. But if Delegate John Cosgrove (R-78) has his way, HB1677 will become law in a few short months, and this scenario will be reality for many women in Virginia. Incredulous? Outraged? Read on below the jump for more information on this odious bill.

Soon they'll have us going to jail because we failed to report MAKING a baby as well as losing one. I can see it now: "Hello, Dispatch? Yes, er, um, my honey and I are about to take a roll in the hay and see if we can get one in the oven. You got that on record?"

Well, I don't mean to be flip about something as horrible as a miscarriage. I had four of them--two in the second trimester--so I know how awful they are. It's just that I don't even know how to react to something as unbelievable as this.

Its really scary, EM. What could be going through their minds? Are they trying to find a way to criminalize miscarriage? They will start saying the right vitamin wasn't taken, a physician was not seen soon enough, or the right food wasn't eaten. The worst they can do to us is not outlaw abortions so it seems..they have plenty more in store for us. Hopefully this bill will never see light of day out of committee in Virginia. Vigilance is a must. Freedom cannot be taken for granted anymore.

Sorry about what happened to you, EM. The same thing happened with me but only once.

Who are these people that come up with this stuff, and what's wrong with the people who vote them in and re-elect them?

No doubt "these people" are twisted, control freaks. There are some very weird people in some of those southern states.

I'm guessing this is a response to the "morning after pill," which enables a woman to terminate an early pregnancy without a clinical abortion. Also, it takes care of women who might somehow manage to self-induce a miscarriage, although that can't be done safely or easily with a healthy pregnancy. But I'm sure that's what this is in response to. It's all part of the right-wing, anti-abortion agenda.