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Hey!! Oklahomans!! This is important!!
The Oklahoma Senate is potentially voting on a personhood amendment sometime this week! Please, please, please educate yourself about the text of the bill and then call your senators and ask them to vote no! Don’t let Oklahoma be the first state to pass a “Personhood Act.”
The text of the bill (SB 1433 - Crain (Sen), Billy (House)) reads as follows:
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to unborn children; creating the Personhood Act; providing short title; stating legislative findings; specifying the interpretation of certain laws; defining certain terms; prohibiting certain interpretation; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION . NEW LAW A new section of law to be coded to the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-750 of Title 63, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Personhood Act”
B. The Oklahoma Legislature finds that:
1. The life of each human being begins at conception;
2. Unborn children have protectable interests in life, health, and well-being; and
3. The natural parents of unborn children have protectable interests in the life, health, and well-being of their unborn child.
C. The laws of this state shall be interpreted and construed to acknowledge on behalf of the unborn child at every stage of development all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state.
D. As used in this section, “unborn child” or “unborn children” shall include all unborn children or the offspring of human beings from the moment of conception until birth at every stage of biological development.
E. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as creating a cause of action against a woman for indirectly harming her unborn child by failing to properly care for herself or by failing to follow any particular program of prenatal care.
Section . This act shall become effective November 1, 2012.
Take a stand! Tell your senators that you want them to keep their laws off your body!
This bit of bizarreness reminds me of this abstinence only speaker who told students that lipstick is made of aborted fetuses. (At around 3:35) Fun!
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MY STATE??????????
It apparently has something to do with the link between stem cell research and fetuses. But I second that emotion. Our state legislators come up with some messed up things.
The front page of Oklahoma State University’s newspaper.
This gives me hope.
The Daily O’Collegian is a good college paper. It’s also the only, if not one of the few, college newspapers with a paywall, so I won’t get to read very much of it. :(
Hey, I know that guy! If you go to OSU, come to Coming Out Stories on Thursday night! 7pm in NRC 106!
I’m working on writing bills for Intercollegiate Legislature. I’ve written quite a few bills in the last couple of years and I’m starting to run out of ideas. After a prolonged conversation about crowdsourcing and grassroots movements, I decided that I should take my bill writing to the figurative “people” just like legislators are ~supposed~ to.
So what I want to know is, what is it that you all out there really want changed?
Are there things that you think should be law that aren’t?
Lay your ideas on me, and I’ll see what I can come up with!
On the drive home from Oklahoma. Pretty puffy clouds :3
Yes. Pretty puffy clouds …
… THAT WON’T GIVE US ANY FUCKING RAIN!!!!1!!!
I’m ready for a torrential downpour — not necessarily a thunderstorm, definitely not severe weather of any kind, just a cleansing, cool, refreshing downpour.
Please … ?
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Oklahoma has the best Toy Story clouds, bar none.
To the Oklahoma Progressives - Lauren Zuniga
