{"id":1275,"date":"2015-04-17T20:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2015-04-17T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:49:34","slug":"state-legislators-propose-9-month-waiting-period-for-abortions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2015\/04\/17\/state-legislators-propose-9-month-waiting-period-for-abortions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"State legislators propose 9-month waiting period for abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1274\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pregnantwoman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pregnantwoman-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pregnant woman (Used under the CC-BY-SA-2.0 license. Source: flic.kr\/p\/nL2KaW)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pregnantwoman-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pregnantwoman.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pregnant woman (Used under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC-BY-SA-2.0<\/a> license. Source: flic.kr\/p\/nL2KaW)<\/figcaption><\/figure>After the Tennessee Senate approved a bill that would require a 48-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions, some legislators proposed extending the length of the waiting period to nine months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just want to make sure women have really, really thought this through before having an abortion,&#8221; said State Senator Geoff Fedherr. &#8220;Once, on a whim, I bought a pair of red leather pants, which turned out to be a mistake. If I had taken a day or two to really think about it, I could&#8217;ve avoided it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 48-hour waiting period measure passed on Wednesday, although proposed amendments did not, including providing exceptions for victims of rape or incest or additionally requiring the woman to carry around an audio player that would play a child&#8217;s voice saying &#8220;I love you Mommy&#8221; on a continuous loop for the 48-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-choice legislators suggested instead that the audio player should use the sound of an infant crying and screaming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nine months is a totally arbitrary length of time,&#8221; said Fedherr. &#8220;We just felt like that was a long enough period of time to make a big decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Tennessee Senate approved a bill that would require a 48-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions, some legislators proposed extending the length of the waiting period to nine months. &#8220;We just want to make sure women have really, really thought this through before having an abortion,&#8221; said State Senator Geoff Fedherr. &#8220;Once, on a whim, I bought a pair of red leather pants, which turned out to be a mistake. If I had taken a day or two to really think about it, I could&#8217;ve avoided it.&#8221; The 48-hour waiting period measure passed on Wednesday, although proposed amendments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}