Georgia: lawmaker's bill calls for state 'womb police' to investigate all miscarriages

AAARRRRGGGGHHH! This assault on the bodies of women and their autonomy at the most basic level is thankfully out of the box completely now. We don't have to wonder what the womb controllers of the fringe want to do - anything related to sex (expressions of it), sexuality (anything other than P-I-V, man-woman), fertility (popping out a quiverfull per God's instruction) and the ability to make choices about the care of her body are clearly not the domain of American women.

In Georgia, House Republican Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta-43, bobby.franklin@house.ga.gov; here's his official state Facebook page) has a bright idea - protect the earliest form of "life", even the results of a miscarriage, to ensure the woman isn't up to nefarious deeds. From HB 1,

SECTION 2.14.

Said title is further amended by revising subsection (a) of Code Section 31-10-18, relating to registration of spontaneous fetal deaths, as follows: "(a) A report of spontaneous fetal death for each spontaneous fetal death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar of the county in which the delivery occurred within 72 hours after such delivery in accordance with this Code section unless the place of fetal death is unknown, in which case a fetal death certificate shall be filed in the county in which the dead fetus was found within 72 hours after such occurrence. All induced terminations of pregnancy shall be reported in the manner prescribed in Code Section 31-10-19. Preparation and filing of reports of spontaneous fetal death shall be as follows:

(1) When a dead fetus is delivered in an institution, the person in charge of the institution or that person's designated representative shall prepare and file the report;

(2) When a dead fetus is delivered outside an institution, the physician in attendance at or immediately after delivery shall prepare and file the report;

(3) When a spontaneous fetal death required to be reported by this Code section occurs without medical attendance at or immediately after the delivery or when inquiry is required by Article 2 of Chapter 16 of Title 45, the 'Georgia Death Investigation Act,' the proper investigating official shall investigate the cause of fetal death and shall prepare and file the report within 30 days; and

(4) When a spontaneous fetal death occurs in a moving conveyance and the fetus is first removed from the conveyance in this state or when a dead fetus is found in this state and the place of fetal death is unknown, the fetal death shall be reported in this state. The place where the fetus was first removed from the conveyance or the dead fetus was found shall be considered the place of fetal death.

The DailyKos diary on this topic laid out some of the situations that challenges Franklin's stupidity, because here are situations where you can't save the life of both fetus and mother:

* What if the woman learns  that she has cancer and must terminate the pregnancy in order to get treatment? No exception for that in this bill.

* What about a case where the woman is hemorrhaging, the bleeding can't be stopped and the doctor must save her and abort the fetus? No exception for that.

* What if she has a partial miscarriage, and is bleeding heavily. Must she wait until her body naturally ejects the dead fetus, even though carrying a dead fetus can lead to septic shock?  Doesn't sound like there's an exception for that.

* What if it's an ectopic pregnancy? You cannot save the fetus and the mother in such a case.

* What if the woman is told she's carrying an anecephalic fetus with only a brain stem which  will be non-viable outside the womb? Must she carry that fetus full-term?

Of course Franklin doesn't think about these matters; he and his cronies are hell-bent on controlling the woman carrying the "zygote, embryo, homunculus, and similar terms" as referred to in the bill. The boldness of GOP lawmakers to dive into these social issues right away shows the distress they have with changes in society, and their desire to reshape it by any means necessary, violating the civil rights of over half of the population.

Besides that -- where is Franklin going to come up with the money to fund this new Georgia Womb Police Division?

H/t JMG.