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An article from the Rocky Mountain News

The House began its final floor session on a contentious note Monday when Rep. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, introduced guest Gianna Jensen. At his request, she had been been granted permission to sing the national anthem.

He told how the Nashville woman had been born two months prematurely and had cerebral palsy. Lawmakers were touched when he said that Jensen, 29, who wasn't expected to crawl, now can run marathons.

But then Harvey said that the reason Jensen was disabled was that her 17-year-old mother tried to have a late-term abortion. He said he wanted lawmakers to know that fact, because later in the day they were planning to vote on a resolution honoring Planned Parenthood.

Some lawmakers were livid.

"I came this close to standing up and saying something," said Rep. Mark Larson, R-Cortez. He and others said Harvey violated House rules and protocol.

"It was despicable," said House Majority Leader Alice Madden, D-Boulder. "Ted Harvey doesn't care about proper decorum or the rules. He just wants to push his narrow agenda."

Said Harvey: "That was not my intention."

15 posted on 06/28/2006 11:39:29 AM PDT by Deut28 (Cursed be he who perverts the justice)

What a smack down! I'm thrilled to hear about it!

24 posted on 06/28/2006 11:51:39 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister

"It was despicable," said House Majority Leader Alice Madden, D-Boulder. "Ted Harvey doesn't care about proper decorum or the rules. He just wants to push his narrow agenda."

And you didn't, Alice?

34 posted on 06/28/2006 12:21:10 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (What is our exit strategy in the war on poverty?)

Talk about pushing an agenda...

"...one of the resolutions we would be hearing was being carried by the House Majority Leader Alice Madden, honoring the 90th anniversary of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains."

37 posted on 06/28/2006 12:25:09 PM PDT by weegee (If fetal tissue is non-viable, then why are they trying to use it to stimulate cell production?)

Keep on pushing, Ted! Bravo! Bravissimo!

124 posted on 06/28/2006 6:39:26 PM PDT by ducdriver ("Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." GKC)

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