VA GOP’s Attorney General Nominee Wanted Women To Report Miscarriages To Police Or Face Jail Time

[OregonBlue]

Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain (R) won the Republican nomination to replace Ken Cuccinelli as the state's attorney general this weekend. As Think Progress reported Monday, Obenshain once introduced a bill that would charge women with a Class 1 misdemeanor if they failed to report a miscarriage to police.

The bill, introduced in 2009, stated that if a miscarriage occured without medical attendance, the woman would be required to report the "fetal death, location of the remains, and the identity of the mother" to the local or state police department. If she failed to do this within 24 hours, the bill would find the woman guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. As Think Progress notes, a Class 1 misdemeanor carries a maximum sentence of “confinement in jail for not more than twelve months and a fine of not more than $2,500” in Virginia.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/va-gops-attorney-general-nominee-wanted-women-to

[dem in texas]

1. Some Weird Happenings in Virginia - all related to Women

Is it the water, the climate change, air pollution, Liberty University? What is going on up in VA? First the gov. wanted to put a metal probe up a woman's vagina. Now this guy wants women to report every miscarriage even ones that do not require a doctor's visit. And if you don't you could go to jail - that is right-wing crazy. Women of Virginia, you have to keep these nut cases from winning any offices in your state. I do my best in Texas to keep them at bay, but here in the Lone Star state, it is a losing game since the state is so red. But it is not too late in Virginia.

[snooper2]

7. Virginia, Vagina, stupid people get confused

LOL

[Thinkingabout]

2. With the attention placed toward sexual abuse in the military and now we have Va government abusing

women again. Where does this stop, the government has no business in our private affairs, this is an intrusion of our privacy, no reason to intrude into such a private matter. Miscarriages is an emotionial time for the mothers and they should not be required to do any reporting to any agency of the government. This is another example of sharia law, it is time to get these laws stopped. Get out of the women's lives and stop attacking us.

[jmowreader]

10. Don't use the term Sharia Law. There's a better one

Romania had that punitive anti-abortion law when it was a communist country, and any woman who suffered a miscarriage would have to report it to the police. The police were ordered to treat every miscarriage as an illegal abortion (before Decree 770 abortion was the only form of birth control available and after Decree 770 all the abortion doctors had been fired, so Romania was the only country in the world with trained back-alley abortion doctors) and interrogate her most harshly.

So...laws like this mini-Cuccinelli asshole want are Communist.

Interesting thing: the very first thing they did after shooting the Ceaucescus was to legalize both abortion and birth control.

[Sheldon Cooper]

3. What's with all the vagina-sniffing in VA?

:whrug:

[Arugula Latte]

4. Oh, that's because he likes Freedom and wants Government Off Our Backs.

[newfie11]

5. Wow VA must have moved to another country

One with Sharia law

[freshwest]

6. 'Civil libertarians' yell 'Police State' but never when this is done to women.

The 'liberty' crowd supports laws taking away the rights of women. Their failure to speak out on these issues says loud and clear, 'Sorry, women, no liberty for you!'

[OregonBlue]

8. Will anyone be surprised if a Virginia Republican introduces a bill banning women and minorities

from voting? Or maybe just a bill that bars anyone who does not pay property taxes from voting? I won't. They are really that crazy.

[hrmjustin]

9. Wow the VA GOP have picked a couple of RW hacks for state positions.