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Tennessee’s abortion wars go You Tube
Posted By katie allison granju
WPLN reports that conservative groups in Tennessee have mounted a new You Tube campaign:
The Family Action Council of Tennessee and the Tennessee Eagle Forum are promoting a one-minute video on YouTube. The video claims that six members of the House Public Health subcommittee silenced six million Tennesseans when they bottled up the abortion resolution and kept it from going to the House floor.
“(music underneath) Why is partial birth abortion legal in Tennessee? Because they won’t let us vote on it.”
Opponents of the resolution say the YouTube video misstates the law.
Dr. Gene Caldwell, who helped draft the law, says the ban of partial birth abortion is still on the books.
“It was passed either ’97 or ’98, and as far as I know it has not been challenged in court. We tried to write so it would not be challenged and where it would continue to be against the law in Tennessee for partial birth abortion.”
Right To Life forces are quoting a February opinion from the state Attorney General in arguing that partial birth abortion is legal in Tennessee.
The resolution would put an amendment in front of Tennessee voters on the 2010 ballot. The amendment says the Tennessee constitution doesn’t provide a right to an abortion, essentially overturning a Tennessee Supreme Court case.
House sponsor Dolores Gresham, a West Tennessee Republican, says she appreciates the video,
and she’s still trying to get her fellow House members to support the resolution.“I asked them two questions. One, is there a will in this House to pass SJR 127? Number two, would you be willing to sign a pledge to suspend the rules to bring it to the floor?”
Apr 23rd, 2008
Good thing I’m way too busy watching videos of a monkey chasing a dog’s tail to be bothered with that nonsense.
The good Doctor should stick with medicine because he doesn’t know the law.
The partial-birth abortion ban to which he refers, although technically still “on the books” is not constitutionally defensible because a similar law was overturned was overtuned by the U.S. Supreme Court.