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enlightenment Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-28-09 07:23 PM
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5. They're starting this in a lot of states - it's the same sort of push
that resulted in the wide-spread bans on smoking in public places. The ballot measures for that were almost identical in different states; it was a concerted measure - and it worked. Florida seems to have been first, but I've reference to it in Colorado and I'm sure it's being pushed in other states. Oklahoma skipped the legislation and just wrote it into another bill; I'm told that it won't be binding because the law they passed (the one about putting state abortion online and publicly available) is unconstitutional, but they also added a section that allows them to keep any portion of the bill that is not directly defeated by the courts . . . so if they knock down the abortion list part, they still have the 'personhood' part.

This sort of backdoor attack on reproductive freedom makes me sick to my stomach.
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