Has Senator Hunt infiltrated the North Dakota Capital?
NO more. North Dakota is full of all kinds of Roger Hunts. I am on the Planned Parenthood email list. I usually read the emails, shake my head, than delete. But today’s email caught my attention. Whoa Nelly;
Dear Friends:
I am writing today to alert you about a bill advancing in the North Dakota Legislature that is specifically crafted to challenge Roe v. Wade and that poses a very serious threat to women’s health and reproductive rights.
HB 1572, which defines a fertilized egg as a person, was passed Tuesday in the North Dakota House by a vote of 51-41. It now goes to the Senate for debate.
The two-paragraph-long bill says that a human being “includes any organism with the genome of homo sapiens.â€
If HB1572 passes the Senate and is signed by the governor, the implications are huge:
• It would ban abortion.
• It would outlaw some forms of birth control.
• It would prohibit medical procedures that affect a fertilized egg, including treatment for cancer, tubal pregnancies, and infertility.
• It would mire North Dakota in drawn-out, expensive legal battles.
• It would force a showdown over Roe v. Wade.The Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund is on the ground in North Dakota, rallying our supporters and testifying in the Legislature against this bill – doing everything we can to prevent it from passing – and we need your help. Your gift to the Action Fund today will support our work advocating for reproductive rights in the state legislature.
We’re not the only ones who have noticed this bill – it has also garnered significant media coverage. The Associated Press, CNN, AFP, MSNBC, the Drudge Report, Fox News, Huffington Post, Feministing, and dozens of regional newspapers including the Star Tribune, Fargo Forum and Grand Forks Herald all have carried news of the bill. Here are some links:
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2009/02/19/news/topnews/177129.txt
http://www.feministing.com/archives/013776.htmlWe will continue to be vigilant in fighting this legislation. Stay tuned, and thank you, as always, for your support.
As most scientists, biologists, doctors, ob-gyns, rational people, etc, etc agree; a fertilized egg MUST attach to the uterus to grow into a fetus and than a human being. If this law passes it basically says any matter floating around the general vaginal area is a human being.
Man, and you thought the crazies were in Pierre!
The two-paragraph-long bill says that a human being “includes any organism with the genome of homo sapiens.â€
So would that include sperm? Because they’d have to lock up every teenage boy in ND and keep their tube socks as evidence.
Just goes to show you that pro-life zealots aren’t real big on thinking.
Who are these 51 people? Apparently the standards for getting elected in North Dakota are much lower than in South Dakota. I could just hear people in Fargo talking about Sioux Falls residents, “I would never live in Sioux Falls, I heard it is full of Godless liberals, and they don’t even have an event center.”