Virginia bill on reporting fetal deaths

There's a post on Daily Kos about a bill before the Virginia assembly that would require a woman whose fetus dies while she's not under a doctor's care to report the death within 12 hours, with failure to comply punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. That's up there with arson, statutory rape, and stalking. Now, health care providers already have to report these deaths to the Commonwealth of Virginia; the data is sent to the CDC. Data collected includes such delightful particulars as the woman's full name, whether she is married to the father, her SSN, and the weight of the fetus. The bill doesn't modify these requirements when the woman reports the fetal death herself. (So how am I supposed to weigh that, exactly?) The bill's author says that it's supposed to target people who abandon babies in Dumpsters and such. However, the poster says that, as written, the bill would appear to apply to miscarriages and says nothing about abandoning babies.

Yeah.

This is just really, really wrong. It violates the right to privacy fourteen ways from Sunday, and it doesn't even do what the author says it's supposed to do. How does it benefit the commonwealth to force a grieving woman who's just suffered a miscarriage to call the cops to report it? Some readers are speculating that it's just one step on that holy grail of far-right-wing conservatives: the official declaration that, under the laws of the land, a fetus is a person and therefore cannot, under the laws of the land, be aborted. (This is distinct from the entirely private and personal belief about whether a fetus is a person, which I think everyone should get to determine for her- or himself.)

Anyway: Anyone live in Virginia? Seems to me that everyone in the state should call his or her rep right now and complain about this bill. Or anyway first thing Monday morning.

Scary.