Kansas Moves to make Miscarriages an Investigation Event and Defund Planned Parenthood

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/26/1287527/-Kansas-Moves-to-make-Miscarriages-an-Investigation-Event-and-Defund-Planned-Parenthood

The War on Women is such a strange and unique animal. We criticize young girls for having sex, we mock them for using birth control and we damn them if they chose abortion. We promote the idea of virgins until they find the 'One' and we equate women who chose what to do with their body to images of the holocaust.

Sometimes, though, that just isn't enough. Maybe now is the right time to introduce legislation that makes you a potential criminal for not being able to carry a child to term, because you know, that's your only real job. Sound like something out of 'The Handmaiden's Tale'? Sorry, concubines, it's not.

http://thinkprogress.org/...

A bill advancing in Kansas would mandate reporting for miscarriages at any stage in pregnancy, the first step along the path to criminalizing pregnant women’s bodies. Under an amendment attached to HB 2613 — which was originally intended to update the state’s procedure for issuing birth certificates for stillborn babies — doctors would be required to report all of their patients’ miscarriages to the state health department.

HB 2613 has the potential to impact a lot of the female patients in Kansas, since miscarriage is fairly common within the first 13 weeks of pregnancy. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, about 15 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage.

So, how does this really work out?

The American Psychological Association has for many years worked to help us better understand the issue of miscarriage.

[sakabatou]

1. So, now Kanas may be on track to criminalizing the womb

And women can't get healthcare. Yay.