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Texas senator filibusters against abortion bill
Yahoo AP News ^ | June 25, 2013

Posted on 06/25/2013 2:48:00 PM PDT by SMGFan

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Wearing pink tennis shoes to prepare for nearly 13 consecutive hours of standing, a Democratic Texas state senator on Tuesday began a one-woman filibuster to block a GOP-led effort that would impose stringent new abortion restrictions across the nation's second-most populous state.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; fillibuster; latetermabortions; plannedparenthood; texas
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1 posted on 06/25/2013 2:48:00 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

She should be ashamed. Why is she anti-woman?


2 posted on 06/25/2013 2:50:33 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SMGFan

I’ve been filibustering Davis’ phone lines and will continue to do so until midnight, or until she stops. She has pro-abortion forces manning them.


3 posted on 06/25/2013 2:51:14 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

Davis’ Austin phone: 512-463-0110

Have at it.


4 posted on 06/25/2013 2:52:03 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: SMGFan

Perry will call a special session. She is a waste of space.


5 posted on 06/25/2013 2:52:16 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: SMGFan

Her dedication to liberalism is so strong she can hardly fail in her endeavor. I wish Perry would call another special session as soon as she runs out the clock.


6 posted on 06/25/2013 2:52:34 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: SMGFan; wagglebee
The bill would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and force many clinics that perform the procedure to upgrade their facilities and be classified as ambulatory surgical centers. Also, doctors would be required to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles — a tall order in rural communities.

This woman supports the butchery of women in abortion clinics when a botched abortion occurs. So much for SAFE, legal, and rare.

7 posted on 06/25/2013 2:53:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: SMGFan

13 hours of standing should prove to be entertaining, but if she breaches, no pun intended, the Republicans should immediately gavel down and hold votes in rapid succession.


8 posted on 06/25/2013 2:55:19 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: SMGFan
When combined in a state 773 miles wide and 790 miles long and with 26 million people, the measures would close almost every abortion clinic in Texas.

Not all of the abortion clinics in Houston. I doubt a lot of other cities are so radically affected. AP activism.

9 posted on 06/25/2013 2:57:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: SMGFan

What wears pink shoes and defends the killing of an unborn child for 13 hours?

Too many comments saying words to the effect, “If you don’t want an abortion then don’t get one” to whom I say, “If you don’t want to accept responsibility for creation of a human being, then get sterilized!”


10 posted on 06/25/2013 2:58:31 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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Should she not be wearing blood read shoes, as well as all of her clothing being blood red? However I am not sure what she should wear to signify her black heart.


11 posted on 06/25/2013 2:59:02 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

She is also holding up legislation on transportation, life in prison, and other items.


12 posted on 06/25/2013 2:59:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

I see that AP got their talking points from a Planned Parenthood activist:

“If this passes, abortion would be virtually banned in the state of Texas, and many women could be forced to resort to dangerous and unsafe measures,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund and daughter of the late former Texas governor Ann Richards.


13 posted on 06/25/2013 2:59:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I wonder what the rules are? Been reading some, but can’t find ‘em. Seen several sources that they will have to wait 2 years to reintroduce the bill? Can someone help me here? I don’t think he can call another Special Session but don’t quote me on anything on this one. I truly know next to nothing on TX parliamentary rules.


14 posted on 06/25/2013 3:00:36 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: SMGFan
They chose Davis to lead the effort because of her background as a woman who had her first child when she was still a teenager.

Does she tell her child that she wished she'd aborted him/her? Because that is what is being said here. She had her first child when she was still a teenager and that teens need access to abortions, especially in rural communities.

15 posted on 06/25/2013 3:02:10 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Mastador1
Should she not be wearing blood read shoes, as well as all of her clothing being blood red? However I am not sure what she should wear to signify her black heart.

She should wear a necklace of fetus skulls, to be in keeping with her mission.

16 posted on 06/25/2013 3:03:10 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: SMGFan

What is the chance of her lasting longer on her filibuster than Rand Paul?


17 posted on 06/25/2013 3:04:09 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: a fool in paradise

President Clinton was lying when he said he wanted abortion to be “SAFE, legal, and rare.” However, that’s probably the true mainstream view and a winning political position. Most Americans are not willing to eliminate abortion in all cases, like rape and incest, and starting from the moment of conception.

I think it’s morally wrong to kill any innocent life, but most Americans would not pass laws making it murder to kill shortly after conception. They also don’t support killing aborted babies that survive being born or are partially born so they can have their brains sucked out.

So I think this liberal Texas senator is fighting a losing and unpopular battle. Most Americans want reasonable restrictions on abortion. The Texas law is reasonable.


18 posted on 06/25/2013 3:04:28 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: SMGFan

Sen. Wendy Davis, 50, of Fort Worth, is just another Democrat fighting for Death and Murder Incorporated.


19 posted on 06/25/2013 3:06:27 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: CitizenUSA

The Texas law is after 20 weeks and providing better medical care for the patients.

Planned Parenthood, AP, and the Democrat Party are engaging in hysteria by claiming it would end all abortions in the state (or “force” some people on the border to go to “gun ravaged Mexico” to seek an abortion). And of course they waved coat hangers in the Senate.

So much drama. So few facts. Clearly they don’t have the issue won if they have to distort so much.


20 posted on 06/25/2013 3:09:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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