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Del. Cosgrove has since withdrawn the Bill from consideration in this session. He received a flood of emails (over 40,000) as news of this legislative nightmare spread across the web. His intention, and it is an honorable one, was to make it a crime to give birth to a stillborn baby while not attended to by a medical professional and fail to report it within twelve hours.

What he is trying to prevent is the stereotypical young, scared, girl who gives birth, abandons the baby to die, and later claims that it was born dead. As of now, there is no way to prosecute them, as the coroner must examine the baby within twelve hours to determine if it was born alive or not.

Due to poor drafting of this bill, what came out was that you had to report all miscarriages or face prosecution (due to the definition of "fetal death" in VA). He now sees the error of his ways and is going to draft a bill that makes sense for submission in the next session.