Tennessee Lawmaker Wants to Issue "Death Certificates" for Abortions

[luna_k]

Oh sweet Jesus.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Legislation introduced in Tennessee would require death certificates for aborted fetuses, which likely would create public records identifying women who have abortions

Comments

[abbylee]

Does anyone know how the medical system works? Are there already systems in place for tracking how many abortions are performed? Not survey type statistics, but actual record keeping requirements. What about for other surgeries and medical procedures?

This particular idea is stupid. But I'm curious as to the actual mechanics of the reality.

[thisficklemob]

Oh yeah! This reminds me of that guy who wanted to pass a law requiring miscarriages be reported to the sheriff within 48 hours with "products of conception" to be turned over.

And since maybe a third of all pregnancies end in miscarriage before the woman even knows she's pregnant, that basically would have amounted to shipping your monthly flow to the sheriff if you were having sex with a man.

And technically, since conception simply means sperm fertilizing egg, and not necessarily implantation, who knows what other fluids. :p

These people are cuh-razy. And most of them appear to have failed (or never taken) Health.

[voyageofbeagle]

Yes, since this is all moving in the direction of issuing death certificates for the possibility of a baby, let's start issuing them each time a woman uses birth control. Or gets her period.

[txvoodoo]

There are people lobbying for that.

Also see this: http://www.missfoundation.org/news/legislation.html

[fishsanwitt]

God, doesn't he have anything better to do than harass women?

[boisestudley]

I hate that wasteful b.s. kind of legislative effort. One of the reasons I so longer work for the section 527 that used to be my employers is that in the name of promoting LGBT rights through candidate endorsement, they selectively "didn't notice" that one of the candidates they endorsed supported enactment of the exact same b.s. legislation you described. Did I mention that supporting pro-choice candidate, in addition to LGBT friendly candidates, is part of their mission statement? And that it was an organization co-founded by none other than Ellen Malcolm? That is all.