Texas cops ‘swarm’ school, police call for ‘prayer’ over miscarriage in bathroom

[liberalhistorian]

108. No, I'm afraid they don't know

what miscarriage means, frankly. I've known too many RW fundies and militant pro-lifers who actually seem to have no concept of miscarriage and what it really is. They think any pregnancy that ends before term, including within the first trimester when most miscarriages occur, is akin to an abortion or, if they do have some understanding of it, they think that the mother "did something" to cause the miscarriage. They simply cannot grasp the concept of a miscarriage and it's truly frightening, as are the implications of that if they get into full power.

This includes police morons like these idiots who descended on the school like locusts as if there were a "miscarriage cartel" inside the school or something. NO concern at all for the medical well-being of the child who'd suffered the miscarriage, NO concern for the fact that she may have needed help. If I were a parent at that school, I'd be raising holy hell over it.

And don't think that this kind of ignorance can't be codified into law, either. I remember an idiot Virginia legislator a few years ago who actually wanted to require women to report any miscarriages to the local POLICE within twenty-four hours of its occurrence, even if they didn't visit a doctor (many times with very early miscarriages, it's not really necessary), and to label it a crime worthy of arrest and charges if they didn't do so, and there were even hints of charges against doctors as well. This idiot not only had no grasp of the concept of miscarriage, he also didn't seem to understand that miscarriages are so common that women often don't even now they've had one or are having one, until well after the 24-hour period he wanted to mandate. Fortunately, the public ridicule was so great that he finally withdrew the bill, but don't think for one second that there's not a lot more where that came from.