Reply #84: I cannot jump on the bash Cosgrove bandwagon if the intent was honorable

[China_cat]

Evidently the email was a sham.

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+HB1677 is the link to follow the changing in wording of this bill.

So far the ONLY CHANGES have been to substitute numerals for written out numbers and change the word 'mother' to woman. Oh, and changing the word 'this' before Commonwealth to 'the'.

But NOT ONE WORD of the original proposal to require women to report a 'fetal death' within 12 hours has been changed. NOT ONE WORD. As it remains, fetal death still covers a 3 week zygote as well as a 9 month stillbirth.