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A CONTENTIOUS DAY AT
THE STATE HOUSE AS
LAWMAKERS TAKE UP
SEVERAL ABORTION BILLS.
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SUPPORTERS FROM BOTH
SIDES OF THE DEBATE----
SHOWED UP TO HAVE
THEIR VOICES HEARD.
CONCERN FROM PRO-
CHOICE GROUPS HAS
INTENSIFIED WITH
FEARS----- THE U-S
SUPREME COURT COULD
OVERTURN--- ROE V.
WADE -- WHICH
LEGALIZED ABORTION
NATIONWIDE.
IF THAT HAPPENS---- IT
WOULD PUT ABORTION
REGULATION BACK IN THE
HANDS OF THE STATES.
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BUT PRO-LIFE
SUPPORTERS ARGUE --
ABORTION IS MURDER --
AND SAY THESE BILLS GO
TOO FAR.
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER KIM KALUNIAN
HAS BEEN AT THE STATE
HOUSE ALL AFTERNOON --
AND JOINS US NOW WITH
...
... THE LATEST
DEVELOPMENTS.
KIM?
ONE OF THE BILLS HERE
TONIGHT THE REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTHCARE ACT IS SEEKING
TO ESSENTIALLY CODIFY ROE V
WADE INTO STATE LAW AND
REPEAL WHAT SUPPORTERS
SAY ARE OUTDATED,
UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS
STILL ON THE BOOKS. BUT
PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES ARE
AGAINST THAT BILL - AND IN
SUPPORT OF OTHERS THAT
WOULD PROHIBIT ABORTIONS.
"My body my choice!"
DUELING CHANTS IN THE HALLS
OF THE STATE HOUSE TUESDAY
--
"Life! Life! Life!"
AS THE HOUSE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE HEARS TESTIMONY
ON ABORTION-RELATED BILLS...
It is not an extreme bill
REP EDITH AJELLO SPONSORED
THE REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTHCARE ACT WHICH AIMS
TO ESSENTIALLY CODIFY ROE V
WADE INTO STATE LAW. 39 OF
HER FELLOW
REPRESENTATIVES HAVE
SIGNED ON AS CO-SPONSORS.
AMONG THOSE TESTIFYING IN
FAVOR OF THE BILL,
PROVIDENCE MAYOR JORGE
ELORZA AND FORMER REP.
LINDA KUSHNER, WHO TALKED
ABOUT HER OWN EXPERIENCE
HAVING AN ILLEGAL ABORTION
IN 1960'S....
I have never regretted that
decision
but I can say that I have also
been
always angry, I think that's the
only
word, that my life was put in
such
terrible danger because some
group
of people thought that I should
not
be able to control my body.
THE PANEL ALSO HEARD
TESTIMONY ON BILLS THAT
WOULD BAN ABORTION AND
SO-CALLED DISMEMBERMENT
ABORTION.
While abortion may or may not be
the legal murder of an actual
innocent human life no one can
deny abortion is at the very
least the
snuffing out of a potential
innocent
human life.
These little ones are sitting in
a
womb. Nobody hears their silent
screams as they're being
aborted.
And that's sickening.
AND THAT HEARING IS STILL
UNDERWAY NOW ENTERING
HOUR FIVE... NO VOTE IS
SCHEDULED TONIGHT.
AT THE STATE HOUSE, KIM
