Bills would change Maine abortion laws

[Maine-ah]

fucking republicans.

The conservative Republican base in Augusta is providing new traction for old efforts to curtail access in Maine to abortion, sex education and birth control.

Bills pending before the Legislature would tighten up parental notification requirements, impose a 24-hour waiting period and require the reading of a detailed description of the developing fetus to any woman or teenager seeking to terminate a pregnancy.

One measure would require parents to sign an “opt in” permission statement to allow their children to participate in school-based sex-ed classes that include information about birth control and pregnancy termination in addition to promoting sexual abstinence. Another measure would require parental consent before a teen could be provided with prescription birth control, and yet another seeks to make it a separate crime when a fetus is harmed or killed in the course of a violent attack against a pregnant woman.

Jim Melcher, associate professor of political science at the University of Maine at Farmington, said Tuesday the restrictive proposals are likely to meet with a warmer reception now than they have in the past, thanks to the pro-life platform adopted by the empowered Maine Republican Party.

http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/02/15/health/bills-would-change-maine-abortion-laws/

I thought they wanted less government? Get your fucking hands out of my bedroom and out of my medical choices. Read the comments too.

I post on there, I go by Millicent.

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[cali]

2. and the hits just keep coming in Maine and NH

I hate this shit wherever it happens. I hate it even more in New England.

[SPedigrees]

3. I think they gave up on Vermont, thankfully.

But NH and MA are too close for comfort.

[sasha031]

4. me too,

teabaggers are the same old clowns from years past. they just wear different costumes these days.

[Crystal Clarity]

5. Sickening

:grr:

[Maine-ah]

6. kick