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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 11:21 PM Apr 2012

Tennessee has passed a bill that identifies mothers who miscarry as murderers


Courtesy of The New Civil Rights Movement:

The Tennessee House last week voted 80-18 to make miscarriage — or the killing of any fertilized egg — murder. Last night, the Tennessee Senate passed by a 28-2 margin a companion version of the bill. The bill specifically includes all embryos “at any state of gestation in utero.” Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Haslam has not indicated if he will sign the bill.

To be clear, this bill goes further than covering, say, a violent attacker harming an expectant mother who then, unfortunately, miscarries. This bill, House Bill 3517 and the Senate’s companion, makes anyone’s actions that presumably cause a miscarriage murder. Opponents of the bill question how law enforcement would actually enforce this law or determine if someone’s action was a direct cause of a miscarriage.


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More here: http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2012/04/tennessee-has-now-passed-bill-that.html



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Tennessee has passed a bill that identifies mothers who miscarry as murderers (Original Post) Tx4obama Apr 2012 OP
Salem witch trials begin again MichiganVote Apr 2012 #1
+1000 Dawson Leery Apr 2012 #6
It was either KY or TN debating this last year because they said some women might claim they had freshwest Apr 2012 #2
With all of the crap going on the US, Ilsa Apr 2012 #3
Why just stop with miscarriage, extend this bill to sperm also Thinkingabout Apr 2012 #4
If that happened I'd be in jail for a long time davidpdx May 2012 #16
I think we all saw this coming sakabatou Apr 2012 #5
Years ago I was laughed at for predicting mandatory uterine inspections after miscarriages. OnionPatch Apr 2012 #9
From the state that gave us the Scopes Trial - n/t coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #7
Maybe there's too much oil in the groundwater in Tennessee Art_from_Ark Apr 2012 #8
From the State that brought us the Scopes Monkey Trial Suji to Seoul Apr 2012 #10
The collective IQ of Nashville........... socialist_n_TN Apr 2012 #11
lol n/t politicasista May 2012 #14
GOP women should be specifically targeted for prosecution mainer Apr 2012 #12
I've been gone from TN... NightHawk63 May 2012 #13
These bastards are out of control! Odin2005 May 2012 #15
I'm sure they included funding for the Kotex Police. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #17
 

MichiganVote

(21,086 posts)
1. Salem witch trials begin again
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 11:37 PM
Apr 2012

Women, we own the market place. If this state or others refuse to recognize the sovereignty we have over our bodies and our children, then we refuse to recognize the white male dominated power.

Think well what you will "buy" with your freedom or your enslavement.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
2. It was either KY or TN debating this last year because they said some women might claim they had
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 11:38 PM
Apr 2012

Natural miscarriages were actually sneaking behind the lawmakers' backs and getting abortions or doing away with their babies with the morning-after pill or other such remedies.

In other words, your womb is no longer under your control, it is the property of the state.

Can we call it fascism yet?

The third reich had women locked up in birthing centers to make sure they produced cannon fodder.

This is working up to be the same thing.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
3. With all of the crap going on the US,
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 11:40 PM
Apr 2012

THIS is what state legislators are working on? What the fuck is wrong with these people? Don't they see real problems that need addressing? I guess they must be getting inundated with letters about forced miscarriages.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. Why just stop with miscarriage, extend this bill to sperm also
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 11:45 PM
Apr 2012

All sperm will need to be collected and held until proper use can be made. This is so far away from simple reality. I thought some years back the anti abortion group would not stop with abortion so now it is complete control of every womans body, sharia law at it's best.

OnionPatch

(6,169 posts)
9. Years ago I was laughed at for predicting mandatory uterine inspections after miscarriages.
Sat Apr 28, 2012, 10:08 AM
Apr 2012

I would say I have the last laugh, except this isn't funny at all.

mainer

(12,022 posts)
12. GOP women should be specifically targeted for prosecution
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:09 PM
Apr 2012

Any healthcare professionals should make sure that the wives and daughters of GOP politicians are the first reported and the first to go to jail.

NightHawk63

(473 posts)
13. I've been gone from TN...
Tue May 1, 2012, 05:46 AM
May 2012

...for almost a year. I thought I'd be a little homesick by now...not so much as it turns out!

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