Miscarriage of justice in Virginia

[gridlockjoe]

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.

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Comments

[ladycrim.livejournal.com]

Disgusting.

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

that is damn bloody scary.

err. pun not intended.

Hope you don't mind if I post in my journal too to help carry it along ...

[gridlockjoe.livejournal.com]

Go right ahead; I nicked it from someone else when I was perusing the "latest posts" page.

[ejumean.livejournal.com]

Oh....my....god.....

Unbelievable!

[tea-cantata.livejournal.com]

Oh fucking hell.

[jcello.livejournal.com]

::aghast::

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. bleh!

[smart-ted.livejournal.com]

Just another day in the wonderful, democratic, idealistic USA: fetuses, no blobs of biological matter, are more important than fully grown women.