Death Certificates For Aborted Fetuses?

(AP)  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," said Campfield.

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.

The identities of the women who have abortions are not included in those records, but death certificates include identifying information such as Social Security numbers.

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.

"We certainly hope the Tennessee Legislature doesn't invest too much energy in this bill," she said. "We think it's clearly a violation of privacy, and potentially illegal concerning HIPAA regulations."

[bmcyaz]

This is a great idea for requiring birth certificates. This way, we will find out who these female murderers are!!! Abortion is cold-blooded murder!!!!

[motherjones-2009]

Processor2

You're unhinged. It's the repubs that are pushing the "nonsensical" legislation of which you speak. It is also the repubs that the rest of the civilized world holds in scorn. Why do you torment yourself by trying to do things that are over your head, such as read? Why don't you retreat to the moonshine swillin', sister marryin', gun lovin', knuckle draggin'holler you come from and stop tormenting yourself?

[processor2]

Question:

What if the baby that is being killed is female, what about her rights to her body???



tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock

waiting for an answer

[processor2]

another way of putting it

FACT: Demoshit Party DOES NOT care a whit about the fetuses - the tadpole babies are a way to the hearts of the stupid, deluded humanists and other finger-pointing tooth-cluckers that they rely on to get re-elected in d-a-m-n Yankee states. The Demoscum Party panders to them, as well as to the kweer-lovers, the anti-gun-nuts, and the big labor bosses as a way to stay alive...nothing more. They believe in NOTHING and worship two gods...THEIR TINY ORGANS AND THEIR WALLETS.

It amazes me how the Democrap Party is allowed, in those states that they still control, to make the entire populace look like ignorant, green-teeth inbrteds to the rest of the world by the passage of nonsensical *** legislation like this.


Posted by Plowhandle at 04:55 AM

[plowhandle]

FACT: Republishit Party DOES NOT care a whit about the fetuses - the tadpole babies are a way to the hearts of the stupid, deluded evangelicals and other finger-pointing tooth-cluckers that they rely on to get re-elected in Southern states. The Republiscum Party panders to them, as well as to the kweer-haters, the gun-nuts, and the big business bosses as a way to stay alive...nothing more. They believe in NOTHING and worship two gods...THEIR TINY ORGANS AND THEIR WALLETS.

It amazes me how the Republicrap Party is allowed, in those states that they still control, to make the entire populace look like ignorant, green-teeth inbrteds to the rest of the world by the passage of nonsensical *** legislation like this.

And the Cracker populace keeps putting them in office 'cuz they keep the kweers down, keep the guns loaded, and protect the tadpole babies.

[bmariez]

I challenge you to think about when life begins. Here are some scientific facts about the child in the womb:
At 18 days after conception - heart begins to beat.
21 days - pumps own blood through separate closed circulatory system with own blood type.
28 days - eye, ear and respiratory system begin to form.
42 days - brain waves recorded, skeleton complete, reflexes present.
7 weeks - photo of thumbsucking.
8 weeks - all body systems present.
9 weeks - squints, swallows, moves tongue, makes fist.
11 weeks - spontaneous breathing movements, has fingernails, all body systems working.
12 weeks - weighs one ounce.
16 weeks - genital organs clearly differentiated, grasps with hands, swims, kicks, turns, somersaults, (still not felt by the mother.)
18 weeks - vocal cords work %u2013 can cry.
20 weeks - has hair on head, weighs one pound, 12 inches long.
23 weeks - 15% chance of viability outside of womb if birth premature.*
24 weeks - 56% of babies survive premature birth.*
25 weeks - 79% of babies survive premature birth.*
(*Source: M. Allen et. al., "The Limits of Viability." New England Journal
of Medicine. 11/25/93: Vol. 329, No. 22, p. 1597.)

[motherjones-2009]

Too bad Republicans don't care as much about living, breathing human beings as they do about fetuses. They take food from hungry children and medicine from sick people to give tax breaks to billionaires, then brag about being about being "pro-life". Too bad they don't have the decency to be ashamed.

[xenalily]

This has to be one of the most unsound arguments EVER! It doesn't even matter what side of the fence you are on- it's just nonsense.

[twinklinstar]

Excuse me, I meant to say does death come before life?

[twinklinstar]

Exactly!Wouldn't you need prove of birth (a birth certificate) to file a death certificate? Are we having funerals for them too? Will they be listed in the obits? Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Does death come before birth?