Jerry Cooper Highway. That is what a stretch of Highway 70 South from McMinnville to Spring Valley Road will be named if bill SB26 passes in the Tennessee legislature. It recently passed the Senate Transportation committee with a unanimous vote. What is so bad about that? So they are naming a road after some guy. Big deal.
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Today we have a guest post from Mackenzie Clark Howard, an editor in Nashville, Tennessee. Her website is coming soon.

I’ve always been pro-life, and I couldn’t pretend to be otherwise. Since I’ve been a young teenager, I’ve been disturbed that someone has the legal right, the choice, if you will, to kill their child. However, in my adult married life, I’ve found something else much more disturbing.

You see, as far as I understand, it’s not just someone who has the legal choice. It is women. I look at my husband, a teacher, who loves kids, and I wonder about his rights. Given, he’s a bit gun-shy about plunging into the world of parenthood, but he looks forward to some day in the future when we have our first child. We were married when we were pretty young by today’s standards, so we’ve always been careful planners. (Note to the world: pregnancy is in fact preventable.) His gun-shyness aside, had we had a happy accident, for my husband, abortion would have never been an option. During such what if discussions about how our life might change, my husband has stated that we’d scale back and make it work just fine. He could even live without his high-def satellite TV if he had to—he really is a gem.
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