LITTLE ROCK — A bill that would require abortion providers to keep a sample of tissue from fetuses from juveniles has passed the Arkansas House.
The bill by Republican Rep. Charlene Fite of Van Buren cleared on an 88-0 vote.
Fite says keeping the tissue would give law enforcement evidence in case a girl was impregnated as a result of sexual abuse or statutory rape.
Under the bill, the State Crime Laboratory will set rules on the amount and type of tissue to be retained for DNA testing and procedures for chain of custody of evidence. The lab would also set procedures for proper disposal of the preserved tissue.
The bill goes to the Senate.
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Wth is our state legislature doing...? Holy hell did we elect a complete array of morons of what?
YES! We did...
YES!
We did...
Does this answer your question?
"Arkansas Legislature Leads Nation In Percentage Of State Lawmakers Without A College Education"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/state-legislatures-college-educ...
which is
Just a reflection of the population. No surprise here.
Except
that's not entirely true. See the final update here (http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/03/12/state-lawmakers...).
I'm not defending this legislature, but at least they're not quite as uneducated as the Chronicle of Higher Education suggested back in 2011, which was the source of your article.
Pro-Incest Bill
This would make it illegal for a family member who is not a parent to take a teen out of state for an abortion. It would put grandma in jail for making sure her granddaughter doesn't have a daddy who is also her baby daddy.
Great moments in legislating
Great moments in legislating from The Natural 'Diamoron' State.
Arkansas is known throughout the country for its natural Arkie-Tea-Senate.
Maybe
Maybe the legislators could be required to provide a sample of brain tissue--if they had any.
What a big-government liberal.
You are such a big-government liberal. Here's these good legislators are working diligently to make government smaller and less intrusive, and you want to propose a blanket requirement such as this?
I would have been with you, but you want to test the men as well as the women. For shame.
HaHaHa!"...working
HaHaHa!
"...working diligently to make government smaller and less intrusive"
HELLO! Have you been in a coma for the last 60 days?
BAD LIBERALS!!!! BAD!!!!
BAD BIG GOVERNMENT LIBERALS!!!!