While We Were Sleeping

On Monday, Tennessee’s House of Representatives made great strides in limiting its citizen’s reproductive rights by paving the way for a state constitutional amendment to ban abortion.  State Dems made a case for rape, incest, and the life of a mother, but such exceptions were roundly rejected by a vote of 76 to 22 on SJR127.  Next stop: a General Assembly vote, in which a supermajority in the House and Senate moves this amendment further along.  Assuming it passes (and it probably will, with an estimated 10 votes to spare), the end game would be a ballot vote in 2014, in which every registered voter in TN can exercise their opinion on the health, bodies, and rights of their fellow citizens.  Isn’t politics grand? 

Read all about it here…

The good news is that we have some time to make some noise and stop this archaic piece of legislature from polluting TN any further.  I’m an ex-Southerner, but I will continue to dutifully report what my friends and family in the South share from their respective trenches.