>>“no human involvement whatsoever in the causation”?<<
I’m as Pro-life Catholic as you get but I have a problem with this wording. It can be used against anyone.
What if a woman doesn’t even know she is pregnant and miscarries through stupidity, like getting drunk and falling down the stairs? There is no law against drinking or being stupid. Now we are going to prosecute her?
This is not right and I’m glad it will never see the light of day.
There is a difference between this and fetal murder laws.
The only women who should be concerned are married women... and if you are child-bearing age, being prepared to bring a child into the world in a healthy manner should be your number 1 priority. Otherwise you are living in sin, and a law such as this one is one way to force responsibility on people. From the code:
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."
Many women miscarry and not even are sure they’re pregnant.
What are they going to do next? Require monthly blood tests to determine if a woman having her cycle is actually miscarrying so they can charge her with murder?
At the time that most women miscarry, the baby is far too small and undeveloped to even have the remotest chance of survival.
And the term *miscarriage* isn’t really used past the third or fourth month anyway. After that people tend to say the baby was still born.