Suffering in Triplicate, or My New State Sucks

Apparently, some asswipe Republican has proposed a law that would make it a Class 1 misdemeanor for women to fail to report miscarriages--within twelve hours of the awful event. This would include all the clinical data that would be taken by a medical professional in the event of a fetal death--even if you didn't see a doctor, or didn't see one right away. Other Class 1 misdemeanors? Statutory rape, providing alcohol to minors, carrying a concealed weapon while under the influence, and stalking. (all taken from the link, which does better than I'm going to do here.

Why put this burden on the suffering mother? Presumably, the article states, to advance the notion of the unborn as persons, whose deaths are worth noting. I don't get why anti-abortion activists would think they can change the minds of those who have decided the rights of the mother are more important by submitting the naturally miscarried to bureaucractic processing.

I'll do my part to make my voice heard here, but I wanted to alert you if this comes to your state anytime soon.