Rep. Campfield - Here He Goes Again
Campfield had a minor blogswarm awhile back for some rather stupid comments on his blog. I guess he needed to make some more news. Now he wants to collect information on those who choose to have an abortion by having the state require death certificates for the aborted fetus. Somehow I do not think Campfield is a rising star of the GOP.
Tennessee would collect death certificates for aborted fetuses under a bill introduced in the General Assembly.
Rep. Stacey Campfield said his bill would provide a way to track how many abortions are performed in Tennessee. The measure would also likely create public records on which women are having abortions.
“All these people who say they are pro-life — at least we would see how many lives are being ended out there by abortions,” said Campfield, R-Knoxville.
mydigest said,
February 18, 2007 @ 6:28 pm
I think that to register the death of a new citizen is honourable, whether he or she died by legal murder, natural causes, or accident. Let it be so. By the way, it is not only theists who see abortion as unsavoury. As a non-theist, I regret it also.
But abortion has to be legal because prohibition of it leads to far worse abuses, although we need not pretend that killing an inconvenient kid when he or she is doing fine, and the mother would not be harmed, is anything other than a sordid indication that moral education still has a long way to go.
Cy Quick at mydigest.wordpress.com