Rep. Karen Camper (D-Memphis, itchin’ for a Fight in the 87th) has proposed House Resolution HJR132 in response to HJR61 by Rep. Henry Fincher (D-Cookeville) and the heath of the mother and HJR66 by Rep. Debra Maggart (R-Hendersonville):
Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to a vasectomy. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding how and when a vasectomy may be obtained, especially related to situations involving the knowledge and consent of a spouse when the person requesting the vasectomy is married.
A heated discussion is going on this morning at a Kleinheider joint, and Aunt B., as usual, brings it.
What this bill does is shed some much needed light on who in the state of Tennessee is trusted to make decisions about their own reproductive health (men) and who is not (women).
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