Posted on 06/25/2013 10:05:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Texas’ lieutenant governor late Tuesday suspended a senator’s filibuster against wide-ranging abortion restrictions, but Democrats moved quickly to appeal the decision and set off a parliamentary fight over the rules.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst after determining that Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis strayed off the topic when she talked about a sonogram bill passed in 2011 and how the new abortion restrictions only compounded the anti-abortion laws in Texas.
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It’s a scary time for the pro-life movement. The Supreme Court could be set to deal it a horrible blow tomorrow.
It’s a scary time for the pro-life movement. The Supreme Court could be set to deal it a horrible blow tomorrow.
F her. And who cares anymore that the Left will claim some grand injustice anytime they lose a vote?!
The TX senate is voting right now. Some Senators are yelling the vote started after Midnite.
Pro Aborts stomping their feet, yelling, gonna collapse the floors.
Dewhurst says SB5 passes 17-12.
Shouting from outside the locked doors.
Not as unfair as leaving the state so the voting body would not have a quorum.
DPS Troopers lining the Gallery. Crowd shouts as woman is arrested.
And that backfired. I wouldn’t think that would be something to emulate.
Not good.
Screaming Protestors Drown Out Abortion Bill Vote
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/davis-starts-filibuster-to-stop-abortion-bill/nYTqs/
It’s a good day to be a Texan!
She is a real loser. Hope the next election shows that.
Process matters. Doing it the way it was done could in the long run hurt. I watched this debacle on you tube. Watch the process stories tomorrow. I promise there is not much to be proud of. They should have let her go call a second session and pass the bill. This way is too polarizing Nd will gin up the left for money and candidates when demographically TX is already falling fast.
It's a special session of the legislature with a specific termination date: midnight, tonight.
If she had dragged it out until midnight, no more business could've been transacted.
This is politics and you have to play hardball.
slowly but surely Texas will go the way of CA and fall into democratic hands.
Agree 100%
After all the drama and BS, keep one thing in mind when we hear how the Texas proposal is some extremist position. Abortion law in leftist, socialist, feminist Sweden is far more strict than the anything being considered for Texas.
In Sweden;
“The current legislation is the Abortion Act of 1974 (SFS 1974:595). This states that up until the end of the eighteenth week of the pregnancy the choice of an abortion is entirely up to the woman, for any reason whatsoever. After the 18th a woman needs a permission from the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) to have an abortion. Permission for these late abortions is usually granted for cases in which the fetus or mother are unhealthy. Abortion is not allowed if the fetus is viable, which generally means that abortions after the 22nd week are not allowed. However, abortions after the 22nd week may be allowed in the rare cases where the fetus can not survive outside the womb even if it is carried to term. The issue is largely settled in Sweden and the question of the legality of abortion is not a highly controversial political issue.”
So the American radical left is deeply oppressed by a policy that a Swedish feminist finds satisfactory.
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