COLUMBIA, S.C. – The S.C. House of Representatives approved new protections today – both for babies “born alive” and for doctors and healthcare workers who object to certain procedures.
The first bill approved by the House was the “Born Alive” bill. This legislation stipulates that medical officials must provide immediate medical attention to keep alive any baby that is born alive. The “Born Alive” bill brings South Carolina law in line with existing federal law pushed by S.C. Sen. Lindsey Graham.
The second bill is the “Freedom of Conscience Act,” which allows healthcare workers, doctors, and researchers to object to a specific list of five procedures: in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia, human cloning, and fetal tissue research. If this bill becomes law, any worker who objects to these procedures may not be fired for objecting to the procedure based on their conscience. Abortion is not included because there are already “conscience” protections in existing laws.
Let the clowns spin it as they want. The truth is these two bills, along with everything else the claim they have achieved for the people, do not provide or sustain jobs in our state. The "born alive" bill is similar to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act signed by President Bush in 2002. A pro-life website even explains what the purpose is for the "Freedom of Conscience Act" below.
The House Judiciary subcommittee also approved a second pro-life bill that prohibits employers from firing or refusing to hire employees who object to participating in abortions or a number of practices, including working with embryonic tissue obtained by destroying human embryos, days old human beings. The Freedom of Conscience Act would allow medical workers like hospital workers, nurses, pharmacists and others to opt out of certain practices,such as providing the morning after pill that can sometimes cause an abortion.
Oh, and here is something else that's funny...
“Today’s votes are another major achievement for conservatives throughout our state,” said House Majority Leader Kenny Bingham. “The Republican Caucus has worked diligently this year on supporting the agenda the voters of our state told us they wanted on the campaign trail last fall – the same election where voters gave the Republican our largest majority ever in the House.”
In other words, this is an achievement to restrict women and their rights, spend more money on items not needed in the state and further drag us into the past. Good work!
However, this was not the agenda of the people in this state. The people wanted us to come out of the economic recession, have more job opportunities and better education. The people of this state wanted to see a balanced budget that kept money in public education and social services.
But, again, you people are conned. The Republicans pushed their own agenda, even when truth was in their faces.
As the economic recession continued through fiscal year 2009, state tax revenues fell significantly, with only five states collecting more in 2009 than they had in 2008. Among the 45 states that collected less in 2009, many saw declines of more than 10 percent--all this despite the many tax hikes that states enacted. In addition to presenting new Census data for 2009 and comparing it to 2008, we take a look back at the last decade, examining tax revenue by type to identify the sources of tax volatility.
South Carolina had a negative 16.8 percentage change in state revenue. Get that? We lost revenue because of all the Republican tax breaks.
The type of tax cuts will surprise you - and it shouldn't if you pay attention. (Table 2)
Stable revenue is an important goal for state tax policy, and the year-to-year percentage change by source can give us a rough idea of the volatility of certain taxes. Table 3 illustrates the higher volatility associated with taxation of income, both corporate and individual. Corporate income has by far the greatest amount of volatility. Sales taxes tend to be more stable, although many states have made their sales taxes more volatile by excluding groceries and other large areas of consumer goods and services.
South Carolina's corporate tax saw a negative 37.4 percentage change. So, who are they favoring?
Not the people. Not your agenda. Get wise to this.
Where's the job creation for a state sitting at a rate 10.2 in unemployment. Not in these bills.
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Game over... jump on the tobaggan. Look it yup Nimrata.
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