Monday, May 4, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods Hedy Weinberg Predicts SJR127 Will Pass House This Session
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:36 AM
"The agenda of the legislature this year is to take away women's reproductive rights. ... It's taken them about six years, but I'm afraid this year they will pass in both chambers SJR127. ... I have to admit that this is unfortunately getting bipartisan support. Republicans are not the only ones who are anti-choice in Tennessee."Roe v. Wade is safe, especially now with President Obama appointing Supreme Court justices, but Weinberg called SJR127 "quite dangerous. In and of itself, it says that women in Tennessee have no right to control their reproductive health care." SJR127, which would strip abortion rights from the state constitution, already has passed the Senate. If the House passes it this session, it'll need super-majorities in both chambers next year to go on the 2014 ballot. Weinberg castigated pro-lifers for opposing "quality sex education in the middle schools."
"We need to make contraceptives available. We need to explain the risk of being involved in unprotected sex. The same folks who are anti-choice are the same folks who don't want to provide quality sex education in the schools, but in fact just yell abstinence only, abstinence only."
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TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE 2009 TO DO LIST:
(Action items 1-15 of 500)
1) Outlaw abortions
2) Deport foreigners
3) New tax credit for gun purchases
4) Burn books (except bible)
5) Burn witches
6) Burn Reichstag
7) Prove dinosaurs were not real
8) Prove Adam & Eve were real
9) Prove Earth is flat & 5000 years old
10) Hand out no bid contracts to friends
11) Take bribes
12) Set up "camps" for homosexual citizens
13) Keep wine out of grocery stores
14) Outlaw advancing of math or science
15) Build worlds largest statue of Jesus
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David Fowler - Pro-Choice (Some choices)
must think he's won. His email this week was all about the judicial elections. He slammed Supreme Court Justice Janice Holder because she is a sitting judge who opposes the bill. He heaps contempt on her, "She gets to be one of five people in the state who not only get to apply the “rules” of the “judicial game” to the live action of the real world, but she has the prerogative (or has assumed it by our inability to hold her accountable) to rewrite the “rules of the game.”
Funny, that's why a lot of us object to the bills he wants to pass. It's taking decisions we think we can make ourselves out of our hands.I guess having 132 people make our personal decisions for us is OK.
It's funny that Fowler can't see that beam sticking out of his eye. (Warning biblical reference)
This shouldn't surprise anyone. It is impossible to tell a Democrat from a Republican in the state of Tennessee to begin with. This is one of the most bought-off legislatures in the country and they have never had a problem interfering with the rights of people who don't send them money.
