Friday, April 20, 2007
News Sadie gets greedy over sonograms
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:27 PM
Former Georgia Christian Coalition head Sadie Fields; state Sen. Nancy Schaefer, R-Turnerville; and a cabal of other die-hard right-to-lifers got a little too grabby on the last day of the 2007 legislative session. Their bill originally sought to require abortion providers to offer to let women see sonograms of their fetuses, with no exception for victims of rape and incest.
The version of the bill that passed the House and later the Senate was modified so that sonograms wouldn't be mandatory, but if one were taken, it would be offered to the woman. Not content with that, Fields' minions crammed the bill with extreme language in a conference committee, making it just as repugnant as it was before.
When the bill came back to the Senate to be approved, Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Buford, was so enraged by the sneakiness of the changes that she took to the well to complain of the attempt to put conservatives such as her in a tough position. "You're pushing people and I don't like to be pushed," she said.
The altered bill failed by three votes, sending Schaefer racing out of the chamber to try to work up a less-noxious version of the bill. At this writing, though, there's no assurance that it'll be allowed to come back for another floor vote. In other words, Fields and Co. might well have succeeded in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The lesson here is, a fetus in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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