Tennessee abortion bill would require publishing names of doctors -- Disgusting!

[Tennessee Gal]

The latest salvo in the abortion wars comes in the form of a bill in the Tennessee Legislature that would result in the online publication of the names of doctors who perform abortions, and -- according to critics of the measure -- potentially out individual women who undergo the controversial procedure.

The Life Defense Act of 2012, which is under consideration in the Tennessee House of Representatives, would direct the state Health Department to post on its website a report on every abortion, to be filled out by the facility where the procedure takes place.

The reports must include the "identification of the physician who performed the abortion and the physician's office, clinic, hospital or other facility where the abortion was performed," according to the official summary of the bill.

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Although the bill states that patients will not be identified in the reports, it says the documents must include the woman's county, age, race, marital status, plus her number of prior pregnancies, number of prior abortions, the gestational age of the fetus, and her preexisting medical conditions. That, critics say, could make it easy to guess identities, particularly in sparsely populated rural areas.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-tennessee-abortion-bill-20120319,0,3304370.story

[Tennessee Gal]

1. More on this:

Rep. Gary Odom (D-Nashville) called the bill "very dangerous," and said the Republicans who voted it out of a House subcommittee offered "no explanation as to why this was something that needed to be done."

"It puts a target on women's and physicians' backs," he told HuffPost. "I think it's a very dangerous piece of legislation and serves no purpose I can tell other than trying to intimidate women and physicians."

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The House Health and Human Resources Committee is expected to vote on the bill Wednesday, and Odom said he expects it to pass in the GOP-dominated House. It will then move to the state Senate, where Republicans are also in the majority.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/19/tennessee-abortion-bill_n_1363410.html

[Webster Green]

2. A hit list for religiously insane assassins.

Stay classy, rethugs.

[Tennessee Gal]

3. That's about it.

Very dangerous, indeed, with all the right wing lunatics just itching to go postal.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. What? No Scarlet Letter for women who seek abortion?

[Tennessee Gal]

5. It seems that is what is intended.

Release their information to the public. Have at it. That is the Republican way.

Somehow I thought medical records were confidential by law.

[Mariana]

12. It's intended for the women and doctors to fear for their lives.

It's also possible that at least some of these legislators truly wish the doctors and the women to be killed. Plenty of people were very pleased when Dr. Tillman was murdered. At any rate, this isn't just about attempting to shame them. It's about terrorizing them.

[Arkansas Granny]

20. That was my first thought. Why not just brand them so no one will need to wonder

who they are. It will make it much easier for the rabid right to lifers to target them.

If this passes, it should be mandatory that each lawmaker who votes for it to have their entire medical history published for everyone to see.

[freshwest]

6. More 'Big Brother' from the 'freedom and liberty' crowd. What's wrong with this picture?

[Evasporque]

7. doctors and names of vasectomy patients bill required for sinful seed spillers....nt

[alferoutou]

8. Yup one can reason

with republican, yes in deed.

(Sarcasm)

[baldguy]

9. The only reason for this is to give the anti-choice terrorists a convenient target list.

[Mariana]

10. I think these legislators can rightly be called terrorists.

Clearly, the intent is to influence the decisions of the doctors and the women by causing them to fear for their lives for making the "wrong" choice.

[spanone]

11. tennessee politics have completely embraced the dark side

both houses of congress and a puke governor....

[UTUSN]

13. R#10 & K n/t

[Tennessee Gal]

14. Try as I might I cannot think of a single good reason for this to become law.

It can only lead to problems for doctors and the women they treat.

[Aerows]

15. This is going to put

targets on the back of women and their doctors. The legislator who dreamed this up, and everyone who decided it was a good idea should get their heads examined. This is about the most irresponsible legislation I've ever heard of.

[K Gardner]

16. "Making it less comfortable for women to kill their babies"..

I just did a post on this at Daily Kos regarding some FB comments from GOP women in Tennessee.

It's abhorrent.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/20/1076107/-Making-it-Less-Comfortable-for-Women-to-Kill-their-Babies

[Tennessee Gal]

17. Good exchange, but the woman is a moron.

This will expose doctors and their patients to great risk from the lunatic fringe.

[K Gardner]

18. Of course she's a moron :-) But I live here

in TN and am surrounded by morons.

Doubtful this could or would pass a HIPPA review. But in TN, ya just never know.

[Tennessee Gal]

19. Yes, I live in TN also.

We are surrounded by morons. I am in an exchange with one right now on Facebook about the new Executive Order signed by Obama. She claims Obama does not respect the Constitution. I am waiting for her to provide an example.

I pointed out that all he did was revise previous Executive Orders by many Presidents since the 1950's, but she does not trust him. I bet she trusted ole Dumbya.

[TNLib]

21. I think it's really scary that they are posting so much personal info on the patient

there are allot of small sparesly populated counties with some real whacko realigious nuts living in this states. I think this could lead to deaths for both doctors and patients. This is really scary stuff.

[Tennessee Gal]

22. It hasn't passed yet.

I am watching the local news and not one word has been said about this. It is truly amazing. I would think this would be news worthy.

You are right, scary!!!