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Democrats fold on Women's rights

Republicans just can’t seem to keep their filthy laws off of women’s bodies. Sometimes, they’re even able to talk the Dems into joining in for some good old-fashioned back alley teamwork. (“Just jiggle that hanger a little more... it’ll come loose...)

A proposed constitutional amendment concerning abortion won the support of a majority of the Democrats on a conservative House committee Thursday, signaling that the measure will likely pass out of the Legislature by wide margins and end up on the November ballot.

Though suspicious of the presidential election-year timing of the issue, centrist Democrats in the more moderate Senate also approve of the measure requiring parents to be notified if their underage daughters get abortions. They cite opinion surveys that show widespread support for putting parental notification in the state Constitution. The state Supreme Court struck down a parental-notification law as unconstitutional last summer.