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Rep. Matthew Hill HB3808 (2012): "Women's Safety" TNGA House Floor Vote
Tennessee General Assembly Video
House Session - 66th Legislative Day Mar 29, 2012
TNGA Rep. Matthew Hill caught in a glaring lie about supposedly "unlicensed" and out-of-state abortion doctors flying into Tennessee to perform "illegal abortion procedures" while presenting his HB3803 "Defense of Life Act of 2012" bill for third consideration on the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Time mark 15:24 .
TNGA Rep. Matthew Hill (R-7, Jonesborough), legislative sponsor of the Tennessee Life Defense Act of 2012, or HB3808, was defending his bill that would require all doctors who perform abortions to obtain admitting privileges at area hospitals before the Tennessee House Health and Human Service Committee and also originally requiring the state to publish records that would identify doctors performing abortions in Tennessee and compile a very broad demographic database about the women undergoing abortions in Tennessee.
Critics of Hill's HB3808 legislation cited the bill was a merely a legislative attempt to providing anti-legal abortion rights opponents with the information to identify, assault, and terrorize doctors and women seeking abortion services.