The Tennessee House last week voted 80-18 to make miscarriage — or the killing of any fertilized egg — murder. Last night, the Tennessee Senate passed by a 28-2 margin a companion version of the bill. The bill specifically includes all embryos “at any state of gestation in utero.” Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Haslam has not indicated if he will sign the bill.
To be clear, this bill goes further than covering, say, a violent attacker harming an expectant mother who then, unfortunately, miscarries. This bill, House Bill 3517 and the Senate’s companion, makes anyone’s actions that presumably cause a miscarriage murder. Opponents of the bill question how law enforcement would actually enforce this law or determine if someone’s action was a direct cause of a miscarriage.
Personally I don't see how anybody did NOT realize that this was the ultimate goal of the Republican's "War on Women." It has always been about criminalizing the death of a fetus, and they will not stop until they can find a way to pillory a woman who suffers a miscarriage in the public square, and send any doctor who performs an abortion to the gas chamber.
Look I don't know how else to say this, but if you are a woman who supports the Republican party in 2012 you are an idiot!
I mean what more do they need to do to convince you? Forcibly remove your ovaries until you swear to them that you will only use them to create more Republicans?
