Posted on 08/06/2013 12:17:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who gained national attention after filibustering a ban on abortions at 20-weeks, said that abortion is "sacred ground," and there should be no restrictions at all placed upon it. She also said she is considering running for governor of Texas.
"I'll seek common ground – we all must – but sometimes you have to take a stand on sacred ground," Davis said at a Monday press conference, according to Politico.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has similarly called the right to an abortion "sacred ground."
When asked to name which legal limits on abortion she would support, Davis would not name any.
"You know, the Supreme Court has made that decision," she answered. "And, it's one of the protected liberties under our Constitution, and I respect the constitutional protections that are in place today whether it be for this purpose or whether it be for other protected purposes in the Constitution. I don't think we can pick and choose."
LifeNews.com founder Steven Ertelt noted the irony when Davis said she was speaking out "for those who cannot speak for themselves."
Davis became a national celebrity when she filibustered a bill in the Texas legislature to ban abortions after the fetus is 20-weeks old. She was successful at killing that bill in a special session, but the bill was passed in a second special session and signed into law by Governor Rick Perry.
Though Davis claims to speak for the rights of women, polls show, The Washington Post recently pointed out, that a majority of women, even more than men, support the 20-week ban.
Davis received a flood of media attention after her filibuster. She appeared on a host of national talk shows in which she complained that Republicans pushing for the 20-week ban were only doing so to get national attention. Since that time she has traveled to Washington, D.C., to fund raise and to appear Monday at the National Press Club luncheon.
When asked if she is considering running for governor, Davis answered, "I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices, either my state senate seat or the governor."
She’ll get maybe in the mid-thirties in votes if she runs for governor in Texas. Most of us see her as disgusting.
We can not have much longer before He returns. He’s gonna be pretty pissed, too..
Abortion is sacred ground?
Wow, killing babies is their CHURCH.
Can u conceive of something more gristly and twisted?
And that question is coming from a pretty non-religious person.
“Sacred ground” for a baby-murdering bitch like Davis, is a special place in Hell.
Hey Wendy, since you love all abortions, why don’t you take one for the cause and abort yourself right now, you can call it a late late late late abortion
“Abortion Is ‘Sacred Ground’”
Breathtaking. Morality really has done a 180.
Let her run. Hopefully she will secure the Dem nomination, thus guaranteeing continued GOP control of the statehouse in Texas.
Geez, why doesn’t she just go all in and raise it to 5 yrs old just in case they change their mind. Good Grief.
I find it interesting that those who push abortion most strongly are exactly those who would most benefit society had they been victims of it.
Abortionists, Reduce the World’s population, etal. types never want to lead by example. I have asked several I came in contact with to practice what they preach and lead by example. I got dirty looks in return. They won’t do it.
Wasn’t it Rush who said that abortion is the sacrament of the feminist church? It’s the ultimate separation of a woman from her nature. I remember hearing that somewhere.
Whoever said it was right.
“And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
King Richard III (I, iii, 336-338)
Trodding on the corpses of murdered children.
This one could give lessons in ambition to the Spitzer/Weiner monster.
I would rather have legalized infanticide via a mother’s own hands only vs. the outsourced copout that is medical abortion.
Why sully a Doctor’s oath to do no harm for the conveinence of someone else snipping the baby’s neck?
The words “sacred” and “abortion” would never be in the same sentence in a moral & sane society.
Davis became a national celebrity Texan joke / @$$hole when she filibustered a bill in the Texas legislature by my standards. Other than a few liberal hellholes like Austin, Houston and a few other enclaves, she is despised like a killer disease. She may as well be a rabid bat or skunk in my town.
Yes I definitely hope she runs and gets the Dem nomination.
She will pull in a lot of national $$$ for a losing effort, $$$ that won’t be spent on races elsewhere.
Go for it, peabagger.
I’m sure “all-abortion-all-the-time” will be a winning campaign strategy with most Texans. NOT!!!!
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