Do you live in Virginia?

[serai]

Then you'd better get on the friggin' phone.

VA Legislative Sentry - Have a miscarriage, go to JAIL?

And on we go, step by step. I've been watching this coming ever since that court case ten years ago where the woman who got a ticket for driving in the diamond lane alone defended herself by claiming her fetus as a second passenger in the car - and WON.

If you're wondering where this is all heading, go rent "Rain Without Thunder" at your local independent video store for an increasingly accurate view of where we're going to end up if this kind of thing isn't stopped. It came out aboout ten years ago, and I tell you it is chilling. A faux documentary about a girl who is jailed for "fetal murder", and beyond that it examines the legal system surrounding the issue and the social ramifications. We're definitely headed in this direction and damn fast. Usually these kinds of dystopian stories seem to predict their results way too early, but on this one I think we may be hitting that situation far sooner than the movie claims.

I am so damn glad that soon enough I won't have to worry about this kind of thing anymore. And I feel very, very sorry for young women in this country - you all are heading for some seriously hellish years.


link from baylorsr.

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[ex-lunarisi.livejournal.com]

While purusing your LJ for a pic to draw of your interests, I came across this entry. I must have missed it on my flist.

I cannot thank you enough for posting this. I live in Va. and I'm getting in contact with my reps today to tell them to kill this bill. This is just utterly INSANE.

I try to look at things objectively, try to see both sides of an issue because there are usually valid points and the pros must be weighed against the cons. I can see no good reason to even have a bill like this unless it's an effort to prevent at home abortions. Which scares me because, last I looked, abortion was still legal in this stupid state. So are they already putting in laws for the day that abortion will be *illegal*?

I am sooooo ready to move out of this backasswards state.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. It can be easy to miss posts when one's flist is jumpin'!

Oh, this is clearly a step by the anti-choice contingent. The bill makes no fucking sense otherwise. It'll cause way too much of a logjam for the police, for one thing - believe me, the cops are going to be hating this law really fast. Not only is it awful for the mother and her partner, etc., it's going to be incredibly awkward for the cops who have to deal with it, and they're going to resent being placed in a position of violating innocent people's privacy. I know I sure would. And what elected representative in his right mind wants law enforcement officers hating his guts? It's a bad BAD idea all the way around.

Hey, pull up stakes and move out here, honey. California's a good bit saner when it comes to stuff like this. And the weather's nice, too. :)


P.S. Don't bother emailing your reps. Emails can be easily ignored. CALL them - a voice on the phone is far harder to dismiss.