Update: 3,717 Petition Signers as of 5-30-2008

Effort to Bring SJR 127 to the House Floor
for a Fair Up and Down Vote. 

 

"My Representative says that both Tennessee and federal law already ban partial-birth abortion. So why is SJR 127 necessary to ban partial-birth abortion in Tennessee?" Who is telling the Truth?  Click here to find out

Welcome to the website that will allow you to take a stand for life in Tennessee and pave the way to make partial-birth abortion illegal in Tennessee. 

If you are outraged that partial-birth abortion is still legal in Tennessee, you need to act now.

If you want to see partial-birth abortion banned in Tennessee, you need to act now, before the legislature adjourns.

Senate Joint Resolution 127 would allow you to vote on an amendment to our state Constitution that would allow partial-birth abortion to be banned and allow for other common sense abortion laws to be enacted.

SJR 127 has passed the Senate four times. But it’s “stuck” in a state House subcommittee.  Six members of that subcommittee have voted to prevent six million Tennesseeans from having a say in banning partial birth abortion.

Quick Links:

SJR 127 Language
Attorney General's Opinion
Resources for Churches

 

Your state Representative is being  asked to vote to allow the resolution to by-pass this subcommittee where it’s stuck to bring it directly to the House floor so all our Representatives can vote.  If this motion does not pass and this resolution is not approved, you will not be able to vote on this amendment until at least 2014!

Now is the time for action so it can be on the ballot in 2010 (at the earliest).

Your state Representative must hear from you today.  Without your insistence, the motion to have a vote on SJR 127 will fail. 

Together we can make a difference. Together we will be able to make sure that partial-birth abortion can be banned in Tennessee.


"Why is Partial Birth Abortion Legal in Tennessee?"

In 2000, in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Sundquist, our state Supreme Court “found” a right to abortion in our state Constitution. As a consequence of this decision, our state’s informed consent law was struck down as well as our law that required women to wait 48 hours from the time they were informed to the time they had the abortion. In addition, the Court struck down the requirement that more risky third term abortions be performed in a hospital for the safety to women.

As a result, Roe v. Wade could be reversed by the United States Supreme Court tomorrow and abortion would still be a right in Tennessee.

But because of the strong language of our State Supreme Court, our state’s Attorney General recently issued an official opinion saying that a ban on partial birth abortion would be “constitutionally suspect.” Even though the United States Supreme Court has made it very clear that partial birth can be banned under the U.S. Constitution, the same cannot be said of Tennessee’s constitution. We need SJR 127 to pass so we can make it clear that our state constitution does not protect partial birth abortion and prevent our legislature from making it illegal.



David Fowler, President     info@FamilyActionTN.org


Bobbie Patray, President    Bobbie@tnEagleForum.org