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Monday, 10 January 05 :: this new thing in virginia

yes, if you haven't heard about it now, you get to hear about it here..

a virginia republican is proposing criminalizing miscarriage..

do what???

exactly. do what. huh. what the fuck.

a virginia republican would like every woman who has a miscarriage to report it to law enforcement.

i'm tired, i'm not angry, so there's going to be no fire and brimestone type rant here.. mustang sally, she's got a great one. but my thought is that this is just another beginning, more sliding down the slope of roe v wade. this state wants to do it, and frankly, i don't give a flying fuck that its in the bible belt. yes, pay attention folks in blue states, pay attention my fellow oregonians, it will come to your state next (just like all those anti-gay marriage amendments). those fuckers on the really-christian-right have made their agenda and they are slowly but surely getting through and successfully completing that agenda. we are now talking on their terms, not ours. this is just one little symptom in the disease.

got friends and family in virginia? TELL THEM TO CALL THEIR REP. CONYERS, TELL THEM TO CALL THEIR STATE REPRESENTATIVE. fuck email. calls. hell, i like the idea of sending used tampons to the honorable representative.

UPDATE
The bill has been withdrawn.

posted by brooke at January 10, 2005 08:17 AM

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But did you also see that after 48 hours of a barrage of calls and emails, he rescinded this and agreed to reword the bill to only include stillbirths?

posted by: chasmyn at January 10, 2005 03:00 PM

And darn good thing the bill has been taken back! I was feeling a little queasy about sending a months worth of tampons and pads.. ;) (And I am from Canada!)

posted by: amy at January 13, 2005 10:27 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.