Frank Corte is at it again!
| HB 21 | Author: | Corte, Frank |
| Last Action: | 11/13/2006 H Filed | |
| Caption: | Relating to informed consent to an abortion. |
| HB 22 | Author: | Corte, Frank |
| Last Action: | 11/13/2006 H Filed | |
| Caption: | Relating to the regulation of certain physician’s offices where abortions are performed. |
| HB 23 | Author: | Corte, Frank |
| Last Action: | 11/13/2006 H Filed | |
| Caption: | Relating to disclosing information to persons obtaining emergency contraception. |
Three bills filed by Frank Corte in November threatening our right to choose. HB 22 is an exact replica of HB 811 from the last legislation cycle. HB 21 is also an exact replica of HB 1469 that didn’t pass. I guess if you don’t get it the first time you just try again and again until you do. He is like the freaking energizer bunny of anti-choice legislation. We have him to thank for women being “informed” that their risks of breast cancer are higher if they get an abortion, even though there is no real medical basis for that particular statement.
Abortion, Miscarriage, and Breast Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute:
Current Knowledge In February 2003, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) convened a workshop of over 100 of the world’s leading experts who study pregnancy and breast cancer risk. Workshop participants reviewed existing population-based, clinical, and animal studies on the relationship between pregnancy and breast cancer risk, including studies of induced and spontaneous abortions. They concluded that having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman’s subsequent risk of developing breast cancer. A summary of their findings, titled Summary Report: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Workshop, can be found at http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/ere-workshop-report .
But, I suppose the facts really don’t matter when all you really want to do is impose your beliefs onto someone else and scare those women to death. I am sorry, I seem to have gotten off on a rant, back to the bills at hand.
HB 21 demands that anyone receiving an abortion receive all the warning materials in writing at least 24 hours before the procedure is performed. That written material of course includes that statement that you will be at higher risk for breast cancer if you go through with it but I suppose I am just being nitpicky expecting people to be informed with real information not scary myths. At this time the publications must be available to everyone and they are, every woman obtaining an abortion now must sign that she has had the opportunity to review the publications.
I live in San Antonio and it would be a simple matter of me driving 10 or 15 minutes to get the information the day before but that isn’t so for all women in Texas. This could mean two long trips or even an overnight stay for some women in Texas and that is unacceptable. Women aren’t stupid and no woman comes to the decision to terminate a pregnancy lightly. Why would we be choosing to make their already hard struggle, harder? I get that there are people that believe that life begins at conception, I am actually one of them, but the choice to end a pregnancy lies only with the woman who is carrying that pregnancy and we don’t get to make other people’s choices for them. I have seen the argument from both sides and it really comes down to life or no life that fetus is in my body and no one gets to control my body but me.
HB 23 is really where we get to see Frank Corte’s opinion of women. We aren’t stupid but it sure looks like he thinks we are. When a woman goes to get emergency contraceptives she knows what they do. But Frank Corte wants this sign to be displayed in any pharmacy that sells emergency contraceptives.
80(R) HB 23 - Introduced version - Bill Text:
Sec. 172.003. SIGN REQUIRED. A business establishment at which emergency contraception is dispensed or distributed shall display a sign, in clear view of each cash register in the establishment, that is at least 18 inches high by 24 inches wide and that, in block letters in a font that may be read clearly, reads in English and Spanish:”IF YOU BELIEVE THAT LIFE BEGINS AT FERTILIZATION––THE POINT WHERE THE SPERM AND EGG UNITE––THEN YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION MAY EITHER FUNCTION AS A CONTRACEPTIVE TO PREVENT THE EGG AND SPERM FROM UNITING OR PREVENT THE IMPLANTATION OF YOUR ALREADY FERTILIZED EGG IN YOUR WOMB. THE PHARMACIST DISPENSING THIS DRUG IS REQUIRED TO EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW THE PRODUCT MAY HELP TO PREVENT YOUR PREGNANCY.”
Obviously, women are stupid. We wouldn’t possibly have a clue as to what a medicine we are planning to put in our body does. Of course we know what it does, he just wants there to be one more possibility of guilting someone into not using it.
Frank Corte certainly cares so darn much about life, oh wait it’s not life he cares about it is only fetuses because I sure don’t see him proposing a bill to end the death penalty in Texas. I guess once life can be sustained outside the womb that it doesn’t matter any more.
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