By a vote of 244 t0 105, the Democrat majority New Hampshire House voted to table CACR14, a ridiculously bad effort to enshrine “reproductive rights” into the State Constitution. So, bad it came out of a majority Democrat committee with an 18-2 vote to, for lack of a better word, to kill it.
Related: Phyllis Woods – testimony on CACR 14
The idea was to make abortion a constitutional right without using the word abortion. The fact that you can’t write what you mean should be a signal that you shouldn’t write anything but legislators gotta legislate so, instead, we got this.
The right to make personal reproductive medical decisions is inviolate and fundamental to the human condition. Neither the State nor any political subdivision shall infringe upon or unduly inconvenience this right.
Phyllis Woods did a fabulous job in her committee hearing testimony against this amendment and you can read that here. It focuses on the rights of unborn humans, which are widely recognized.
If NH law has or were to decide an unborn baby has human rights this amendment would (aside from employing many lawyers) outlaw abortion in the state given that the unborn human’s fundamental rights are inviolate.
Being stabbed in the skull with forceps without first being consulted is unduly inconvenient. If you happen to have mastered speech, or not even mastered it but managed it, you’d be inclined to object.
Being unable to offer your thoughts is equally inconvenient as would be waiting several years after the child is born to then discuss it, making the entire exercise pointless.
That’s what actually happens when you make reproductive medical decisions inviolate. Human children, regardless of their state of development, have the same rights which the state cannot allow you to deny based on your amendment.
Of course, this is New Hampshire. We already have some of the loosest abortion laws on the planet. All you need is a pregnant woman who consents to the abortion and someone to perform it unless you’re the DIY sort.
No state law prevents it. No license or credentials required. No special facilities needed. You don’t even have to send someone to get hot water. And even if SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade, not a single thing would change about that. Nothing.
And you still tried to enshrine the right to kill the unborn in the state Constitution.
And it got aborted.
Now you can’t even use it to try and drive Democrat voter turnout in November. Lord knows you’ll need something, neither Bernie nor Biden is going to do it for you.
