What the hell is wrong with people?
If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.
I’m too angry to add any further comment. But if you, like me, live in Virginia, perhaps you would consider sending the delegate who proposed this bill an e-mail explaining the sheer inhumanity of demanding that women who have just miscarried have to report the incident to the police or else face up to a year in jail?
Link from Rana.
(Edited to add: I’m with the commenter at Kos who suggests that women respond to this bill by calling the Miscarriage Police every time they menstruate. I also think the commenter at Bitch. Ph.D. who recommends the Lysistrata strategy has a rather good idea…)
Update, a day later: Delegate Cosgrove replies. Sounds like the language of the bill is going to be changed. Apparently he’s been flooded with e-mails from outraged women. Writing to your local politician actually works, after all!
While I haven’t lived in VA since a child, I’m just speechless with rage and, let’s face it–it’s all sympathy rage. I’m not likely to conceive or have a miscarriage, ever.
Just … amazing. There has got to be a way to make this a big fat target of ridicule, but it’s just beyond both surreality and parody.
Whenever students say either writing or political action by the people don’t matter, maybe this should be pulled out as an example of how they do.