Rep. Bobby Franklin of Georgia is sponsoring a bill that would require women to file police reports when they miscarry, since fetuses are Georgia citizens and their deaths are potential crimes. Are you serious?
Jill Filipovic posted a hilarious response to this idiocy on AlterNet. Here's a copy of the letter Jill suggests women of Georgia send to Rep. Franklin.
Dear Rep. Franklin,
I applaud your efforts to support the rights of zygote citizens of Georgia by criminalizing miscarriages and investigating every instance of fetal death as a potential crime. The Georgia State Assembly knows that life begins at the moment of conception, and a fertilized egg death is a human death - a death that we should all grieve, and of course investigate to the fullest extent until we find the responsible party and bring them to justice (the death penalty, which your bill prescribes as the punishment for killing a pre-born Georgia citizen, is definitely appropriate here). I couldn't agree more, and I would like to help.
As I'm sure you know, more than 50% of fertilized eggs -Georgia citizens! - naturally don't implant, and are flushed out of the body during menstruation. I am personally concerned that my own murdering woman-body may have flushed out some human beings, and I may have flushed them down the toilet without knowing that I was disposing of Georgia citizens in such an undignified way. This must be remedied. I would like to be sure that I am not killing any more Georgia citizens - and that if I am, they are able to receive a proper funeral and not a burial at sea, and that our state police can dedicate valuable time and resources to investigating their deaths.
To that end, I attach a picture of my latest used tampon. I am preserving this tampon, as well as all of my other tampons, pads, feminine hygiene products and soiled panties from my current menstrual cycle, so that the Georgia State Police can come collect them as evidence. I would also be happy to drop the specimens off at your office, should you want to examine them yourself.
Please let me know if I can make an appointment to give you these items. Or, since I appreciate that you are a very busy man, please let me know when the police will be by my home to collect them, as my next cycle is rapidly approaching and they are starting to smell. I cannot keep them in my refrigerator for much longer.
Thanks for all the work you do to further the pro-life cause.
this is the dumbest thing in the world. instead of worrying about tampon you should be worried about more important things like rapest, child molestaion and other murdes than a murder from a tampon come on now be real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the dumbest thing in the world. instead of worrying about tampon you should be worried about more important things like rapest, child molestaion and other murdes than a murder from a tampon come on now be real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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