TN legislature intros bill: Death certificates on abortions proposed

[keepCAblue]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Legislation introduced in Tennessee would require death certificates for aborted fetuses, which likely would create public records identifying women who have abortions

more..

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070214/ap_on_re_us/abortion_death_certificates

[BlueJazz]

1. In other news ...A Group known as "Save the Sperm" has issued...

...a statement that they plan to push for a Bill that would give each little "Spermoid",
that was caused by vigorous rubbing of ones Penis, a Death Certificate. :)

[superconnected]

2. I propose Woman Hating Certificates, for Woman Haters.

[mcscajun]

3. An excellent idea. I further propose they be serially numbered,

and that #0000000001 be issued to Rep. Stacey Campfield.

[Lint Head]

4. Death Certificate

A death certificate should be issued for every second wasted on this B.S.

R-Campbell (Soup to Nuts) is a waste of space and is in office because of the incestuous hillbillies that voted for him.
What do you expect.

I live in TN and I'm ashamed to say he is an office holder in this state. (To steal a phrase fro the Dixie Chicks.)

:dem:

[tnlefty]

11. Welcome to DU, Lint Head!

I feel your pain - too many nutcases and nutcases holding office here!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

[Pithlet]

5. Fetuses and embryos don't have birth certificates to begin with.

How then do they get death certificates? If they insist on this ludicrous law, why not apply it to miscarriages as well? Hell, why stop there? Might as well require women to submit a death certificate every month, because many pregnancies end that way without the woman even knowing she was pregnant. Each cycle is the body's attempt at pregnancy, after all. It's insane. I guess the status as fully developed human being only applies for elective abortions. Yet more evidence that much of the pro-life movement is really just a war on women.

[sutz12]

6. Good point...

That means that every fetus must be issued a "life certificate" upon being noticed by a physician. Then a birth certificate, and so on, and so on.......

Hell, let's just sign "fuck certificates" every time we have sex......just in case there's a hookup, you know. Get it notarized and everything. Keep all the crap together for when the kid grows up.

Gotta have something to produce when that Gestapo sentry asks for your papers.

[Pithlet]

9. If what they insist is true

If embryos are full human beings with human rights, and are equal to people already born, then these measures are necessary. Why don't more pro-lifers push for these measures? And because they don't, why won't they just admit that embryo does not equal fully developed and born human being? Either they're human beings deserving of the same protection you and I are and therefore every effort should be made to ensure they're protected and their deaths always investigated as they would be for people born, or they aren't. If they aren't, then their arguments to ban abortion weaken considerably.

[w4rma]

7. Jeeze. The hell with that law. (nt)

[liberalnurse]

8. They do this in Ohio

if the abortion fetus is 20 weeks along.

[rocktivity]

10. Abortion isn't birth. And if you're not born alive, you're not born.

:headbang:
rocknation

[VegasWolf]

12. Only the anally retarded Christian Evangelicals could come up with an idea this insane. nt

[rodeodance]

13. attempt to terrorize frightened and vulnerable women..........

Campfield's bill, introduced Monday, would give abortion providers 10 days following an "induced termination of a pregnancy" to file a death certificate.

House Judiciary Chairman Rob Briley, a Democrat, called Campfield's proposal "the most preposterous bill I've seen" in an eight-year legislative career.

"It is totally inconsistent with everything the law contemplates as it relates to anything close to that subject," he said.

The anti-abortion group Tennessee Right to Life has not yet taken a position on the death certificate bill, said spokeswoman Myra Simons. But she said the organization applauds the sponsors' efforts to "draw attention to the way abortion is handled in Tennessee."

Keri Adams, vice president of
Planned Parenthood in Tennessee, on Wednesday called the proposal an attempt to terrorize frightened and vulnerable women who are seeking abortion.

[prolesunited]

14. How about miscarriages, too?

You should interrogate every woman who has one to see if they did anything to cause it.

[Judi Lynn]

15. Bill seeks details of abortion cases

Bill seeks details of abortion cases
Tenn. death certificate proposal stirs debate

By Erik Schelzig
Associated Press
Published February 15, 2007

NASHVILLE -- Legislation introduced in Tennessee would require death certificates for aborted fetuses, which likely would create public records identifying women who have abortions.

Rep. Stacey Campfield, a Republican, said his bill would provide a way to track how many abortions are performed. He predicted it would pass in the Republican-controlled Senate but would have a hard time making it through the Democratic House.

"All these people who say they are pro-life--at least we would see how many lives are being ended out there by abortions," Campfield said.

The number of abortions reported to the state Office of Vital Records is already publicly available. The office collects records--but not death certificates--on abortions and the deaths of fetuses after 22 weeks' gestation or weighing about 1 pound.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0702150047feb15,1,7758472.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed



Guess which one is Campfield.



http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/house/members/h18.htm