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From our best Nashville Daily, the Nashville City Paper...

"For the fourth time in seven years, the state Senate passed a constitutional amendment Wednesday to remove any guarantees for a right to an abortion within the state constitution.

“This is something that I think is a good day for the people of Tennessee to restore to the people the power of their constitution,” said Sen. Diane Black (R-Gallatin), the sponsor of the constitutional amendment. “And I’m looking forward that this will get full debate over in the House and hopefully passage there.”

"Since a 2000 state Supreme Court decision struck down some abortion restrictions, the state Senate has passed a constitutional amendment similar to the one passed Wednesday every General Assembly — 2001, 2004, 2006 and now 2008.

"Each time, however, that the Senate has passed the amendment, known as Senate Joint Resolution 127, it has either been defeated in a House subcommittee or not been acted upon.

"When asked why this year should be any different, Black tried to show optimism: “You never know what’s going to happen.”

"Yesterday, the Senate passed the amendment 23-9. All 16 Republicans supported the resolution, as well as six Democrats and one Independent.

The amendment would not ban abortions in Tennessee, but would allow the Legislature to enact “common sense protections” regarding them, such as a 48-hour waiting period prior to an abortion, proponents say."

Thank God we have some common sense in our General Assembly! (At least on the Senate side...)

Of the 50,000,000 abortions since Roe v. Wade, how many of those were for 'legitimate' reasons (rape-incest, and the actual 'save the life of the mother' theme we hear so much about?) and how many were actually for after-the-fact birth control? That's the vast majority of abortions...those that could have been avoided in the first place.

In those 'spurn the baby for the rights of the selfish and greedy' we have a great collective shame of abortionists, those aborting 'mothers', and of everyone alive in this country who doesn't speak out.

Since everyone reading this is obviously not in any danger of being aborted, abortion isn't a threat to you. But the threat is there, eating at the core of our collective system of values. If our government can't at least try to protect an unborn child with a minimum of intervention, a 48-hour waiting period, then truly our governing system is fatally broken.

We should not discard that future person, a God-created receptacle of a new soul, without some small consideration. That's all this effort is about...a small consideration for a tiny unborn life, the weakest voiceless link to our future.

"Vital signs should be observed regularly, and a Doppler [for listening to the fetal heartbeat] inaudible to the patient should be used at intervals to determine the presence or absence of fetal heart tones.. This [informed consent] is a controversial area, but most professionals in the field feel that it is not advisable for patients to view the products of conception, to be told the sex of the fetus, or to be informed of a multiple pregnancy".

--Abortionist Warren Hern in "Abortion Practice" J.B. Lippincott Company, 1984 pgs 145 and 304

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from the comments at the link above...

By: girliegirl on 1/31/08

having made the choice, I can tell you from experience.... you lie awake at night and wonder... what might've been.... what if it had lived? Would it be a darling little girl in the next room or maybe tomorrow's Peyton Manning? Could he have cured all cancer, AIDS, what??? But in just a few hours, you can murder a child in your womb without the father's consent~ If the daddy made you mad, watched some porn, talked to a girl at a bar, you can go murder his baby. Is this okay with y'all? Does anyone else out there see the morbidity in this whole process? The clinic here never called it a baby...not once. Even after 3 months gestation, it's NEVER a baby, just an unwanted pregnancy.

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