Speaking of crunch time, and the sneaky shit that gets tacked onto bills at the end of the Session...Will Hartnett gets our first Sneaky Legislator Award.
relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, Texas State Board of Physician Assistant Examiners, and Texas State Board of Acupuncture Examiners and the regulation of health care professions regulated by those state agencies; providing administrative penalties.
What does this amendment do? See after the jump.
Before you do, why did Mark Strama Patrick Rose have to be the one to ask every woman in the Chamber to pay attention? Why are they not lined up at the back mic right now against this amendment that would prevent them from having a choice to abort a child EVEN in the event of physical impairment or threat to the mother. Hold on, my eyes just rolled out their sockets.
We have a third trimester ban, which is fairly broad and the Hartnett amendment would narrow it considerably. However, his amendment changes the Occupations code and the current third trimester ban resides in the Health and Safety Code. So the two would be in conflict. Here is the current language:
§ 170.002. PROHIBITED ACTS; EXEMPTION. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not intentionally or knowingly perform an abortion on a woman who is pregnant with a viable unborn child during the third trimester of the pregnancy.
(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit a person from performing an abortion if at the time of the abortion the person is a physician and concludes in good faith according to the physician's best medical judgment that:
(1) the fetus is not a viable fetus and the pregnancy is not in the third trimester; (2) the abortion is necessary to prevent the death or a substantial risk of serious impairment to the physical or mental
health of the woman; or(3) the fetus has a severe and irreversible abnormality, identified by reliable diagnostic procedures.
(c) A physician who performs an abortion that, according to the physician's best medical judgment at the time of the abortion, is to abort a viable unborn child during the third trimester of the pregnancy shall certify in writing to the department, on a form prescribed by the department, the medical indications supporting the physician's judgment that the abortion was authorized by Subsection (b)(2) or (3). The certification must be made not later than the 30th day after the date the abortion was performed.
Thanks, we corrected. We get our young cute legislators mixed up sometimes.
So what's with Zedler and the receiver in his ear? Can't talk without getting a transmission from someone who knows something. Or just trying to emulate his leader, GWB?
When advised that his amendment was unconstitutional, per the Supreme Court's ruling in Sternberg vs. Carhart, Hartnett was unfazed.
And when asked to consider the circimstances of women at risk of major organ failure, Will Hartnett said, "You can live without anything except a brain."
I hereby nominate Hartnett for the "Dead Man Talking" Award.
Apparently you can also live without a brain--and propose brainless amendments.
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fyi: that was rose, not strama, asking women to listen up