As if the already depressing news didn’t have you down in the dumps enough, Tennessee strikes again. This time, at Planned Parenthood. In both Shelby (Memphis) and Davidson (Nashville) counties, Planned Parenthood is contracted to provide women’s health services for the county, especially in low-income areas of the city. Thanks to…drumroll, please…Gov. Bill Haslam and the rest of the Tennessee GOP, they have decided that Planned Parenthood performs nothing but abortions. Even though it is thoroughly documented that no tax payer money goes toward abortion services, they want Planned Parenthood out. Davidson county seems to have pretty much gone along with it, but Shelby county seems to be being forced into this.
No one seems to care what services are going to be lost to the residents of the 2 most populated counties in the state. The respective counties are supposed to start receiving the money that was going to Planned Parenthood and start performing their own services, but how is that going to work. The new plan is to be implemented on July 1, giving just a couple weeks to completely reorganize the structure of an entire health care system.
I need to do some more research on the topic, but rest assured there will be more on this topic as it becomes available.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
The Hits Just Keep Coming
Tennessee just keeps on coming with the ridiculous laws this year. Again, thanks to our wonderful governor Bill Haslam, what we can do has been limited. In an attempt to bring current laws into the 21st century, a new bill has been passed that limits what a person can post on the internet. That’s right, the internet censorship has begun.
The new law states that anyone that posts an image online that they “should reasonably know” could “cause emotional distress” to another person is subject to a fina and/or jail time. This law originally applied to someone sending material through the mail or a public venue targeted at a specific person. So, plastering the image of a man that had been decapitated all over the town that his mother lives in would have been illegal. I can follow that train of thought. But the new law applies to anyone. Anyone who sees something on the internet and is offended can site this law. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
Tennessee, you need to get it on track. This is getting out of hand and if we don’t do something to stop it soon, the damage will be done and it will be too late to go back.
The new law states that anyone that posts an image online that they “should reasonably know” could “cause emotional distress” to another person is subject to a fina and/or jail time. This law originally applied to someone sending material through the mail or a public venue targeted at a specific person. So, plastering the image of a man that had been decapitated all over the town that his mother lives in would have been illegal. I can follow that train of thought. But the new law applies to anyone. Anyone who sees something on the internet and is offended can site this law. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
Tennessee, you need to get it on track. This is getting out of hand and if we don’t do something to stop it soon, the damage will be done and it will be too late to go back.
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