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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstoday, tennesseans amended their constitution so their legislators can regulate abortion laws.
fuck this fucking stupid state/nation.
still_one
(92,394 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)BuddhaGirl
(3,609 posts)I just said the very same thing to my hubby!!
Thank freaking god....
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)in order to "safeguard women's health".
What shocked me was that in our very conservative, very Catholic precincts here, Amendment 1 lost by a good-sized margin.
spanone
(135,873 posts)SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)State laws cannot override the United States Constitution.
This amendment was proposed as a reaction to a state Supreme Court case, Planned Parenthood v. Sundquist. in 2000. Before your eyes glaze over, well break it down for you: Essentially, it raised the bar for abortion regulations it said the legislature could only pass narrow restrictions that explicitly protect the health of a pregnant women. This amendment spells out that theres no right to an abortion in Tennessee. Both sides agree that it would lead to more regulations on abortion.
The legislature can already pass laws on abortion, and in fact, it has passed new regulations since 2000. But amendment supporters say the legislature is confined by the courts ruling.
http://nashvillepublicradio.org/blog/2014/11/03/guide-amendment-1/
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Cactus dipped in ebola tainted diarrhea.
Gloria
(17,663 posts)stick it up all their asses.
Are the women of that state that STUPID? OR just so "subservient" to those crappy men!
God,. another state I don't want to pass through....
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I DON'T trust the voting machines. I know the word around town even from the FOX watching, fundy women was "Vote NO." So who the hell voted for this? It'll be interesting to see the numbers.
I've told my daughter should she become pregnant, she WILL be kidnapped and taken far away from Fetal Rights Land for the duration of her pregnancy.
I'm not risking my child's life just so some horny old white fucker on Viagra can feel all holy about himself.