Perry signed the Texas fetal pain law in 2005.
It is not perfect but it has punished several murderers and been the impetus for the conversation that changed the minds of several non-pro-life Freepers and acquaintances.
Our prenatal law is better than we could have gotten if we had insisted on including prosecution of the mother and doctor for currently legal elective abortion. It was a step to this year's law that did not have the rape and incest exception and the hoped for Human Life Amendment.
Even Blackmun didn't do that. A) He couldn't make laws. And B) Even he admitted, in the majority opinion, that if the child is a person OF COURSE they are protected by the explicit provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The folks who are pushing this kind of lawless legislation are in fact worse than Blackmun.
-- Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe vs. Wade, 1973"The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment."