this is quite appalling

[winterbadger]

Thanks to mazzie for pointing it out.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/6/194434/1328

The sponsor is also Chief Patron on two joint resolutions seeking a constitutional amendment stating marriage is between a man and a woman, supporting tort reform (IOW, this is W, Virginia-style), and this curious bill (http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+sum+HB1731) that seems to be about forcing high schools to allow home-schooled or parochially schooled students to participate ont heri local high school's interscholastic teams even if they don't *go* to their local high school.

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[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

God, that's just beyond disgusting.

[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

"At what point during your first 12 hours of grief at the loss of this pregnancy do you make time to call the cops to report it? [. . .] What then? Does the officer on the other end of the phone have a Commonwealth of Virginia Report of Fetal Death form right in front of him or her? Does a squad car with flashing lights arrive at your house to investigate? Is the officer who responds trained to handle your case compassionately and kindly?"

These are the exact necessary questions, indeed. I know when my grandmother died at home this past summer, one of the grueling matters is in fact the arrival of a police officer to take the report. Luckily, since Gram was under the care of a wonderful nurse from the good people at the Visiting Nurse Service, the nurse was the first person Mom had to call, and she called the officer. And our state has a law that a death reported by a qualified care provider involves a reasonably compassionate procedure. Still, the questiosn are grueling-- e.g., when did lividity begin?

This proposal has an agenda that I suspect is beyond general control of women's reproduction, actually. I suspect, at first glance, it's about the use of RU486.