Thursday, March 26, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods Evangelicals Gear Up to Stop 'Commonsense' Abortion Bill
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:06 AM
[T]he bill goes on to state that the informed consent and waiting period provisions do not apply if the doctor certifies that the abortion is necessary for "the health of the pregnant woman." The term "health of the woman" is the term whose broad legal interpretation has led to abortion on demand. So, basically if the doctor says the abortion is for the "health of the mother," the bill does nothing; informed consent and a waiting period are truly illusory.So here's the Christian Right's game plan: Pass a bunch of outrageous laws to intimidate pregnant women and force them to have babies even at the risk of their own lives. Women can't count on the legislature to stop it anymore. SJR127 sailed through the Senate this week with 24 votes, one more than the two-thirds needed to put the measure on the 2014 ballot. Five Democrats voted for it. It'll likely pass the House this session. A two-thirds House vote in the next General Assembly is no longer out of the question. Luckily, the federal courts won't let the extremists get away with it.
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Um, so in other words, Fowler wants to legislate that doctors are required to lie to women? Am I missing something here?
And why is he still not bothering to learn what an ultrasound is and how it works before trying to legislate how they're handled during an abortion?
I mean, what does that even mean "Any ultrasound that is taken is available for the woman to see"? Does he think it's just a picture? I'm sorry, but the person giving the ultrasound is positioned between your legs with a rod in your vagina. In order to see the screen while she's doing it, it has to be turned towards her, which means, it has to be turned towards you. I guess you could turn your head or ask that the screen be turned some so that you couldn't see it clearly, but it drives me crazy that he's clearly clueless about how this stuff works and he still wants to pass laws about it.
And don't even get me started on the rest of this nonsense.
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Jarvis H. Cocker, how many of today's posts are designed to make me caterwaul against the patriarcy?
Jeff:
You forgot to mention that this Constitutional Amendment push is really only about one thing: making sure the Wingnut Vote comes out to the polls in 2010 so that the GOP holds the legislature and controls re-districting. It's their ticket to a "permanent majority" in Tennessee.
The Republican legislators behind this push don't care one thing about the consequences - much less the constitutionality - of the measures they're passing, it's about consolidating power.
B, I have to assume that they believe their own propaganda. So they aren't asking physicians to lie, they just don't understand what the facts are that they are asking physicians to relay.
Maybe so, but I'd still like to figure out how to start everyone using "Fowler" to mean "just making up random shit about stuff just to see who will believe me," like "I was at the bar and I fowlered to this guy about how I used to date Pete Kotz and it turns out that the dude was Pete Kotz, so I just pretended to get pissed that he didn't remember me."
