BECAUSE, I GUESS, BUYING A WHOLE BUNCH OF SCARLET A'S WOULD BE A BUDGET-BUSTER FOR THE STATE

From AP:

Legislation introduced in Tennessee would require death certificates for aborted fetuses, which likely would create public records identifying women who have abortions.

Rep. Stacey Campfield, a Republican, said his bill would provide a way to track how many abortions are performed. He predicted it would pass in the Republican-controlled Senate but would have a hard time making it through the Democratic House....

The number of abortions reported to the state Office of Vital Records is already publicly available....

There's clearly no pupose to this except intimidation through the revelation of the names of women who've had abortions -- but, then again, Campfield is kind of an intimidation buff. A couple of years ago he sponsored a bill to impose David Horowitz's "Academic Bill of Rights" in Tennessee.

Oh, and even though he's white, a while back he tried to join the state legislature's Black Caucus -- and, when he was rebuffed, he told AP

that his "understanding is that the KKK doesn't even ban members by race." He added the KKK "has less racist bylaws" than the Black Caucus.

(In fact, the Black Caucus will grant "honorary membership" to "those persons whose belief and actions contribute to the purpose for which this caucus was formed" -- which, I assume, excludes Mr. C.)

I don't know if there's any chance of ever voting this showboating blowhard out, but if it happens, I'm sure he has a great future as a talk-show host on Fox News.