{"id":3283,"date":"2013-05-20T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:26:04","slug":"virginia-gop-nominee-for-attorney-general-would-force-women-to-report-their-miscarriages-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/05\/virginia-gop-nominee-for-attorney-general-would-force-women-to-report-their-miscarriages-to-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Would Force Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/imgres.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2914\" alt=\"virginia seal\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/imgres.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/imgres.jpg 225w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/imgres-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year. At least, that\u2019s what would have happened if a bill introduced by Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain R had become law.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the Virginia Republican Party wants to make Obenshain into the state\u2019s top prosecutor. This weekend, Virginia Republicans selected Obenshain as their nominee to replace tea party stalwart Ken Cuccinelli R as the state\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Under Obenshain\u2019s bill, which was introduced in 2009,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a fetal death occurs without medical attendance upon the mother at or after the delivery or abortion, the mother or someone acting on her behalf shall, within 24 hours, report the fetal death, location of the remains, and identity of the mother to the local or state police or sheriff\u2019s department<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MORE: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/05\/20\/2035411\/virginia-gop-nominee-for-attorney-general-would-force-women-to-report-their-miscarriages-to-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Would Force Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 If a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year. At least, that\u2019s what would have happened if a bill introduced by Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain R had become law. And yet,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[26,1430,298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}