Feminist Majority Democracy for Virginia: Legislative Sentry: HB1677 - Have Miscarriage, Go to Jail? UPDATE: If you are visiting this link for the first time, please read this clarification and this update before contacting Delegate Cosgrove, whose office has been inundated by emails. The email deluge is a Good Thing, IMO, but only if the emails themselves are based on a full understanding of his proposed legislation. So please read before you rant! :-) And thanks for caring enough to rant, to act, to inform yourselves, to get involved. I'm in awe. The update includes the text of the email that Delegate Cosgrove asked me to share with readers. Imagine the following scenario. You are at home alone at 8:00 on a Friday night. All of a sudden, you begin to experience heavy cramping. You decide not to tell your parents yet; let them sleep through the night before delivering the terrible news. Guess what? True? Incredulous? HB1677, “Report of Fetal Death by mother, penalty” Background: Reporting of Fetal Deaths Almost all states mandate reporting of fetal deaths to vital statistics bureaus.
Net Neutrality vs. Net Neutering The fight for Net Neutrality is for the place we call the Net. The fight against Net Neutrality is for a neutered Net biased toward carrying the next form of Cable TV. But what about the fact that most of us never have experienced Neutrality in the first place? An earlier version of this article was presented in Doc's March 2, 2006, SuitWatch newsletter. It's time to define the Internet. As I pointed out last November in"Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes", carriers subordinate the Net to the pipes that carry it, which they own. Meanwhile, copyright extremists of the Hollywood school see the Net as a big "content" business and carriers as ideally positioned to offer "piracy" protections at the backbone level. ...the Net is not a form of carriage, even though it might appear that way to the carriers and the copyright extremists. The principle we call Net Neutrality has its own natural laws, akin to those of gravity, motion and thermodynamics.
Network neutrality Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication. The term was coined by Columbia media law professor Tim Wu.[1][2][3][4] The term "net neutrality" is vague and confusing to many. Another accepted description is "open internet" where you can use your internet connection for anything you wish at no additional charge and with no restrictions—this would be a net neutral environment. There has been extensive debate about whether net neutrality should be required by law. Neutrality proponents claim that telecom companies seek to impose a tiered service model in order to control the pipeline and thereby remove competition, create artificial scarcity, and oblige subscribers to buy their otherwise uncompetitive services.
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