Yeah, that's likely a miscarriage, but what you said was an *apparent* miscarriage, and if that's the criteria, then any cramping and bleeding would fit the bill.
The idea that any apparent miscarriage needs to be reported to the police by the doctor is ridiculous and nothing more that more liberal control tactics. Any woman who's going to illegally terminate her pregnancy is not likely to go to the doctor anyway to confirm the pregnancy and is also not likely to go report it when the abortion occurs.
It's fatal flaw is that like all liberal policies, it's only going to burden doctors and mothers unnecessarily at a critical time in the mothers' life. A woman who just lost a baby to miscarriage does not need to be accused of killing it on purpose in addition.
The other thing is, since abortion is already legal, why SHOULD the doctor report it for homicide investigation?
MrB was right about the stupidity of the question.
The question was with regard to what the consequences of the proposed legislation would be. If a fetus is afforded the same status as any child, and we investige the death of any child that dies under mysterious or unexplained circumstances, do we do the same in the event of the death of a fetus? Children don't "just die".
Doctors make judgements about child abuse all the time.
“Is this child here because of an accident, or has he been abused, in which case I must report it.”
I see no difference between this and a doctor judging the likelihood that the death of an unborn baby was caused by intentional external action by another person.