Bill that would have punished abortion like murder in TN fails, but what’s next?
WKRN
In rare form, the Republican supermajority members assigned to the House Population Health Subcommittee failed to make a motion to begin debating the bill of one of their fellow conservatives, Rep. Jody Barrett.
The Foundation to Abolish Abortion, the group behind the bill, called those lawmakers on the subcommittee “some of the more liberal Republicans” in Tennessee and accused them of disobeying God. “The Republicans on this subcommittee — not a single one of them had the courage or the conviction to make a motion to hear the bill, and as a result, the bill died right then and there,” John Rice-Cameron with the Foundation to Abolish Abortion said.