TN: Once SJR 127 passes the legislature...the PR battle begins

Tennessean features a story on SJR 127 which is being voted on in the state legislature this week.  After 11 years, it is expected to pass but then it must be put on the ballot in 2014 for the voters. The amendment is meant to correct a ruling by 5 judges in 2000 that found that our state constitution approved in 1870 gave our citizens such a broad right to abortion that commonsense restrictions around abortion such as waiting periods and informed consent and that second and third trimester abortions be performed in hospitals must be thrown out.
Because of this ruling by activist unelected  judges, free standing abortion mills such as The W omen's Center in Nashville could operate without being licensed as an ambulatory surgical treatment center and go without inspection and regulations  all these years. Every time the Health Dept. tried to act on that the ACLU would go to court for them and have them back up and running by the end of the business day. The judges were sympathetic to the abortion industry and said since no one had determined how many abortions  were needed to meet that requirement then they were not out of compliance. They never took up the issue of how many abortions would trigger that requirement. To this day unsuspecting women enter thinking that it is inspected and licensed to perform surgical procedures as an ambulatory surgical treatment facility.
The article in the Tennessean is pretty straightforward and accurate which I applaud since the paper has not be shy about showing their bias toward the abortion industry.

"The amendment is meant to reverse a 2000 ruling in which the Tennessee Supreme Court found that the state constitution's right to privacy affords greater protections for abortion access than the U.S. Constitution.The amendment says explicitly that abortion is not protected by the state constitution. "Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion," the amendment says. "The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother."

SJR 127 is expected to pass this week and then the PR battle begins. Already the abortion industry has their friendlies and employees commenting with inaccurate things meant to confuse and scare the public.