Georgia Republican Sponsors Bill to Require Investigating All Miscarriages
Here we have yet another unbelievably ugly right wing attack on women’s rights, in Georgia this time, where Republican Rep. Bobby Franklin has sponsored a bill that requires police to investigate all miscarriages to make sure they weren’t actually secret abortions.
One in three pregnancies end in miscarriage. As a woman who miscarried in the fall of 2009, I cannot tell you how utterly disgusted by the thought that someone would even consider proposing such a bill. Many women after miscarriage already blame themselves, wondering if they had done something wrong that accidentally caused them to lose a very wanted child.
This bill would treat every woman as a potential criminal at a time when they are already at their most emotionally vulnerable. But that’s just another day in the war against women for the country’s Republican party.
Here’s the full text of this sick legislation, in which abortion is referred to as “prenatal murder.”