TNGA Public Hearing: Outlawing All Now Legal Abortions Via 2014 State Ballot Question

[doeriver]

Run time: 33:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B87cAvm-U1A   Posted on YouTube: September 01, 2011 By YouTube Member: wataugariver Views on YouTube: 4   Posted on DU: September 01, 2011 By DU Member: doeriver Views on DU: 1186

 
TNGA Rep. Debra Maggart starts her testimony at 4:00 timemark.
TNGA Rep. Charles Curtiss starts his testimony at 5:30 timemark.
TMS Special Counsel Paul Linton begins his testimony at 8:04 timemark.

During March 2009, the Tennessee General Assembly (TNGA) House Health and Human Resources Committee held an evening public hearing for the reintroduced Senate Joint Resolution 0127 (a.k.a. SJR127) legislation that proposes an amendment to the Tennessee State Constitution that would empower elected members of both the TNGA House and Senate to introduce and enact legislation to outlaw what are currently legal abortion procedures across the state of Tennessee.

The legislation for the SJR0127 state constitutional amendment has already been enacted twice by the Tennessee General Assembly (as I recall, both in 2009 and 2011) and will appear as a 2014 ballot question for amending the Tennessee State Constitution with regard to abortion.

This video (with some minimal editing) features the entire 24 public hearing minutes or so of the March 11, 2009 committee testimony by Paul Linton. Linton, who was introduced during the public hearing by TNGA Reps. Charles Curtiss, is the retained special council of the Thomas More Society of Chicago and former general counsel of Americans United for Life.

This video also features some brief criticism of the Thomas More Society for the TMS web page content featuring the 'About Sir Thomas More' narrative and briefly presents a small, fair use portion of a screen shot from the masthead of the above mentioned TMS web page.

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. You invasive, hippocritical, self-righteous but always wrong, aholes.

[TDale313]

2. Yep. That pretty much sums it up. n/t

[MineralMan]

3. The kinfolks say, "Hey! Move away from there!"

Another state to avoid. I'm not sure which procedures they're outlawing, but I'm sure this will end up in the federal court system. There's a higher Constitutional Authority than the Tennessee Constitution in these matters.

Fight Republicans! Elect Progressive Democrats!

[Buenaventura]

4. unfortunately, that "higher Constitutional Authority"

is held hostage by john roberts, clarence thomas and others.

[MineralMan]

5. There is a solution for that, if we will take it and run with it.

I fear, however, that we may just let things slip even further in that direction through inaction.

[JDPriestly]

6. When they put this much energy into lowering the infant mortality

rate in the US, I will take them seriously.

[Swede Atlanta]

7. Remember the Scopes trial...

It was in Tennessee...I always observe the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, family-trees-that-don't-fork folks when I drive as fast as I can through that state.