HELENA – Four members of the Montana House changed their
minds and their votes Thursday on a bill that would have required doctors to
offer women anesthesia for their fetuses if they’re aborted 16 or more
weeks into pregnancy.
House Bill 460, sponsored by Rep. Penny Morgan, R-Billings,
failed 46-51 after passing the day before in a 52-47 preliminary vote.
Three Democrats and a Republican changed
their voters from “aye” to “nay” to kill the measure Thursday.
The bill is now dead and will not go to the Senate.
Rep. Joey Jayne, D-Arlee, was one of the lawmakers who changed
her vote.
“I am concerned about fetal pain,” Jayne said in
an interview after the vote. “But I wasn’t convinced the procedure
is scientifically or medically based.”
Fetuses that are aborted in Montana are not usually anesthetized
and Jayne said she didn’t want to require doctors to perform a procedure
that is still experimental.
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We wouldn’t want to perform "experimental" procedures
on a unborn child before chopping them up into pieces. That wouldn’t be ethical
and there might be side effects. Rep. Joey Jayne also voted to revise
the penalty for cruelty to animals and to abolish the death penalty.
From the culture of death song book, sung to "Jane Says"
from Jane’s Addiction
Jayne says
I’m done being rational
Don’t care about pain fetal
She hides
The Constitution
Says "I don’t owe them nothing,
But if the bill comes back again
Tell them abortion I’ll still vote for
Try again tomorrow"
"I’m gonna kill tomorrow…"
"I’m gonna kill tomorrow…"
Jayne says
"Have you seen my morals around?
I feel pro-choice without it"
She knows
They all want her to vote
But that’s OK man
She votes with them anyway
Jayne says
"I really don’t have to explain
and maybe they might feel pain
I’m gonna vote tomorrow"
"I’m gonna kill tomorrow…"
"I’m gonna kill tomorrow…"
She gets money
From NARAL and PP
Can’t experiment on a baby!
She don’t mean no harm
She just don’t know…
What else to do about it
Jayne goes
To the house floor at eight
She talks about scientific based
She waits
It just wouldn’t be fair
Anesthetic prepare
without care
Jayne says…
Jayne says…
