VTDigger says a Sheldon letter writer critical of their providing free advertising to a pro-Prop 5 group “may have a misunderstanding of this matter.”
VTDigger says a Sheldon letter writer critical of their providing free advertising to a pro-Prop 5 group “may have a misunderstanding of this matter.”
Has VTDigger kept its promise to seek payment for a freebie ad it gave to a pro-Prop 5 group?
For these two letter writers, abortion should be a non-starter in the Legislature and in the ‘clinics.’
VT Digger donated $1000 in pro-Prop 5 advertising the day before the Vermont House approved the constitutional amendment protecting unrestricted access to abortion.
Mother Teresa’s voice was soft as she spoke to us— I sat literally at her feet on the cool concrete and contemplated her gnarled hands and bare toes.
Autonomy means “having the freedom to govern oneself or control your own affairs.” But, scientifically speaking, reproduction takes two people.
Where’s the racial equity in black/white abortion statistics?
Prop 5 is sweeping and vague – fodder for interest groups to get the courts to do whatever they want, bypassing the good of parents, children, and taxpayers.
Why wouldn’t a nine-year-old with Prop 5’s constitutionally protected right of ‘reproductive autonomy’ have the right to be ‘trained’ to have sex? A legislator asked the question on floor of the House yesterday.
John Klar says Roe V. Wade at least tried to balance the needs of both mother and child, and Prop 5 leaves the child totally unprotected.
A group opposing Prop 5, the constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion, will be gather today at noon at the Vermont State House.
A recent exchange between a Vermont lawmaker and an ACLU lawyer suggests that if Prop 5 is approved, men may be allowed to sue on a case-by-case basis to keep their unborn child alive.
The Vermont House on Tuesday will vote on a constitutional amendment to enshrine unrestricted abortion.
The House could vote on Prop 5 as soon as Friday, ending the legislative process of efforts to enshrine unrestricted abortion in the State Constitution. The governor has no veto powers, but the voters do – and they exercised them as recently as 1986.
Some day a court may use Prop 5 to decide that making a man pay child support for a baby he wanted the mother to abort violates his ‘personal reproductive autonomy.’
It was a small, comparatively laid-back crowd in the Vermont State House last night – for a public hearing on abortion.
I encourage the UVM MC board members to contemplate how that guarantee, if successfully passed, will impact the delivery of health care services. And to further contemplate to what extent abortions, sterilizations, sterilization reversals, surrogacy, fertility treatments, gender reassignment surgeries and their reversals, and other reproductive services would become a priority of not only funding, but also the provision of care over other health care services that are not a constitutional guarantee.
Make that seven Democratic/Progressive Vermont legislators highly ranked by Planned Parenthood whose seats were “flipped” by voters in favor of Republicans Nov. 3. And, all six House members also supported the Global Warming Solutions Act.
All six Democratic/Progressive Vermont legislators whose seats were “flipped” by voters in favor of Republicans Nov. 3 had been strongly endorsed by the Planned Parenthood of Vermont Action Fund.