Feb. 15, 2007
Death Certificates For Aborted Fetuses?
Tennessee Lawmaker's Bill Says Certificates Could Track Number Of Abortions
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(AP / CBS)
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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."
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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?
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
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
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.
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.)
EXACTLY!
How can something that never lived have a death certificate?
Shall we determine the average number of eggs a woman carries and issue death certificates in advance for them?
What about death certificates for sperm?
- by xenalily February 15, 2007 5:43 PM EST
- What's next, pulling up to these women's houses who have had abortions and placing a billboard in their front yards? Whether you agree with abortion or not it is still your health record. This is a blatant violation of the HIPAA laws. Plus, if you can file a death cirtificate when do you file the birth certificate? Someone can't die unless they are born- makes aboslutely no sense.
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