Vermont passed a Constitutional Right to personal “reproductive liberty.” Advocates called it a right to abortion, but it still doesn’t say that, and it has yet to confront any sort of legal challenge, but New Hampshire Dems wanted one for themselves. They just didn’t have the votes.
Grok author and state Rep. Judy Aron documented yesterday’s failure. “CACR 23, which sought to enshrine the right to an abortion in our state constitution, failed to get the necessary 3/5ths votes to pass. The roll called OTP motion failed 193-184.” Prior to the vote, a Democrat rep from the People’s Republic of Keene named Amanda Toll carried her newborn down to the Well to speak to the chamber in favor of the proposed Amendment.
I’m sure someone is snipping the video as I type this, and we’ll add it if that’s the case (but Rep Aron was there and is a credible witness), so how weird is that? Look at this beautiful new life – how about we enshrine killing them before birth in a document we otherwise find tedious and restrictive and ignore unless it suits our effort to undermine it?
On that point, props are prohibited when speaking before the body, including babies, but Rep. Toll is reported to have done it anyway, and rules are for everyone else, I guess. But on-demand, conception-to-birth abortion holds a special place in the dark hearts of its advocates.
Despite New Hampshire law being more liberal than most of the free world, that’s not enough. And disagreeing despite similar or more restrictive laws in 149 countries (where abortion on demand is illegal) makes you the extremist.
Not so much. But if you’d like to promote your own extremism, by all means, bring a newborn to work to help make your opponent’s case.
They needed a two-thirds majority vote to advance the amendment. They barely broke 50% but did it with the help of seven Republicans.
- Bickford, David(R) Straf. 3
- Bordes, Mike(R) Belk. 5
- Mason, James(R) Merr. 3
- Phinney, Brandon(R) Straf. 9
- Proulx, Mark(R) Hills. 15
- Vandecasteele, Susan(R) Rock. 25
- Wolf, Dan(R) Merr. 7
No Democrats voted against the proposed Amendment.
And if any women from Vermont are reading this, and they lost a baby they wanted to keep after being rail-roaded into getting the COVID vaccine, your constitutional right was likely violated.
Just sayin’.
Edited after publication. I grabbed the wrong Rep. It has been corrected.
