Kansas Republican Wants To Create Government DATABASE Of WOMEN Who Have Miscarriages

[Segami]

"..The GOP war on women continues to rage on in Kansas. A bill designed to help alleviate the emotional pain of stillbirths has been turned into a persecution tool against women who have a miscarriage..."

This graphic says it all........make it a billboard!.





A bill meant to provide comfort to grieving families has been turned into a declaration of war against women

House Bill 2613 was an attempt to give grieving families the opportunity to obtain a “certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth” rather than a certificate of death. And that’s all it was supposed to do. GOP Rep. John Doll hoped that the bill wouldn’t become embroiled in his party’s fight over abortion. But one Senate Republican couldn’t let the legislation pass without turning it into a threat against women across the state. Instead of allowing Doll’s bill to pass untainted by anti-abortion fervor, state Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook changed it. She added language that amounts to legalizing persecution of women who have miscarriages. According to the Topeka Capital-Journal, the amendment “extended the bill’s reach to pregnancies at any stage and added mandatory reporting requirements for miscarriages that occur at medical facilities or for the physician who sees a woman immediately following a miscarriage.”



This bill is now a tool that would allow Republicans to persecute women

In short, the bill would force doctors to report women who have a miscarriage to the state. They would have their names entered into a database that state officials could use as a tool to go on witch hunts. The privacy of these women would be violated. The nightmare scenario is that women would be investigated by the state and could be arrested and jailed for miscarriages. Such a law would undoubtedly cause many women to not seek medical attention. The GOP seems to think that a miscarriage should be a crime, even though it’s a fact that they occur for any number of reasons. In order to conduct investigations, the government would have to have access to the medical records of thousands of women. This is a significant invasion of privacy that would be costly to taxpayers. Pilcher-Cook’s amendment is a threat to privacy that would certainly lead to persecution of women. The GOP is obsessed with waging a war against the reproductive rights of women. Plus, it has control of the state government. It’s obvious that this part of the bill will be abused as part of an anti-abortion agenda. A simple attempt to give closure to families has become another attempt to regulate women’s bodies.





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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/03/27/kansas-republican-miscarriage-database/

[DetlefK]

1. Small government, anyone?

[SamKnause]

2. Small enough to fit in a women's vagina.

[dickthegrouch]

13. Just like their brains!

think about it ....

[Segami]

16. The little head always tells the big head what to do.

[Puzzledtraveller]

3. Aren't miscarriages already statistical data that states collect?

[MoonRiver]

4. I don't know about that.

But even if true, I doubt names are collected along with those statistics. This is one of the most egregious Rethug outrages I have heard of.

[gollygee]

11. If they are

they aren't connected to women's names like this. This is really scary. If you have a large number of miscarriages, are you going to have someone visit you and question you?

[get the red out]

5. It is beyond belief

Except that it is happening. They are working toward criminalizing womanhood itself.

[Jefferson23]

6. They are contemptible and they need the ACLU 24/7. K&R

[packman]

7. Tried and Failed

In Virginia:

http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2013/05/failed-virginia-bill-miscarriages-reveals-ignorance-about-womens-health

[historylovr]

8. K & R

[jwirr]

9. Do these hypocrits have any idea that a damaged fetus will sponateously abort on its own? This is

taking us back to the Salem witch trials.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. So some rightwingfuck not only wants to shit on women, but she also

want to EXPAND government with a new reporting system?

She should be tarred and feathered.

[Rider3]

12. Nope, no war on women...

[11 Bravo]

14. WHAT war on women? It's all a myth!

[PumpkinAle]

15. The GOP need to educate themselves on what a miscarriage actually is

besides heartbreaking for the mom, it is normal and natural and often nature's way of dealing with an abnormal fetus.

A miscarriage, (also known as a spontaneous abortion, which is probably why these morons get so worked up) usually occurs within the first 20 weeks of gestation.

Miscarriage is the most common type of pregnancy loss, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Studies reveal that anywhere from 10-25% of all clinically recognized pregnancies will end in miscarriage. Chemical pregnancies may account for 50-75% of all miscarriages. This occurs when a pregnancy is lost shortly after implantation, resulting in bleeding that occurs around the time of her expected period. The woman may not reaize that she conceived when she experiences a chemical pregnancy.

During the first trimester, the most common cause of miscarriage is chromosomal abnormality – meaning that something is not correct with the baby’s chromosomes. Most chromosomal abnormalities are the cause of a damaged egg or sperm cell, or are due to a problem at the time that the zygote went through the division process.

Women under the age of 35 yrs old have about a 15% chance of miscarriage
Women who are 35-45 yrs old have a 20-35% chance of miscarriage
Women over the age of 45 can have up to a 50% chance of miscarriage
A woman who has had a previous miscarriage has a 25% chance of having another (only a slightly elevated risk than for someone who has not had a previous miscarriage)

But because education is a tool of the devil - we have ignorance trying to rule everything a woman can and can not do.

[Dwayne Hicks]

17. How very small government

So small it fits in her vagina! The GOP has become nothing but rabid hateful extremists.

[truebrit71]

18. Because, you know, that's what "small government" looks like...

[Arugula Latte]

19. These assholes view "The Handmaid's Tale" as a blueprint.

[ismnotwasm]

20. K&R

[CFLDem]

21. Really fugging creepy nt

[OnionPatch]

22. My predictions are coming true.

I used to argue about abortion with a particular group of right-wingers that I worked with. I predicted that outlawing or severely restricting abortion would lead to "uterine inspections" and murder trials for women who have had miscarriages. They laughed at me and acted like I was crazy. Told me that could never happen, that I was taking my argument to the extreme....That was about twenty years ago and we're getting ever closer....