Tuesday, March 17, 2009

House Subcommittee Snips Vasectomy Amendment

Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:42 AM

click to enlarge State Rep. Karen Camper
  • State Rep. Karen Camper
With male legislators booming out their no votes, a House subcommittee has just killed a proposed state constitutional amendment to restrict the right to vasectomies. Rep. Karen Camper offered her resolution, which began "nothing in this constitution secures or protects a right to vasectomy," to make the obvious point that men are willing to trample on women's reproductive health rights but not their own. The subcommittee delayed action on a slew of anti-abortion bills and resolutions, but it's certain to adopt some of them this session. Camper said afterward:
"I'm just glad I was able to present it. The point was, when you're talking about reproductive health, our constitution protects us and our privacy and our rights. If we're going to change the constitution, then it needs to be done equally. At this point, I don't think that's happening. Women's rights are being diminished and the same isn't happening on the other side of the equation. But hey, you win some, you lose some."

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Good Lord, does your leftist partisan hackery have to be so evident in each and every one of your articles?
"the obvious point that men are willing to trample on women's reproductive health rights but not their own."
-Uhhh, what men? Which ones? If you made this comment about women people would call you sexist....which apparently you are.
But in any case, you don't really have much of a point. Women are free to get their tubes tied just like men should have no problem get a vasectomy.

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Posted by KevinM on 03/17/2009 at 3:00 PM

Here! Here! Oh, aren't they quick to yell "Not in MY Pants, you don't!" There is nothing in the TN Constitution that protects a man's right to a vasectomy. So why were they so boisterous in killing the proposal. Good for you, Rep. Camper. After all, it does take two capable bodies to engage in a reproductive sexual congress.

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Posted by workingbraincells67#87 on 03/17/2009 at 9:53 PM

So it's tit-for-tat in your world Karen Camper? I'll be campaigning against you next election.

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Posted by what_the? on 05/11/2009 at 9:57 AM
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