Posted on 06/27/2013 11:31:07 AM PDT by Morgana
Governor Rick Perry gave a rousing speech to the National Right to Life convention today and urged pro-life activists to continue pressing members of the Texas legislature to ban abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Perry responded to the mob that shouted down members of the state Senate, who came a few minutes short of passing a bill that would ban late-term abortions and hold abortion clinics accountable for violating the health and safety of women.
“Even if they lose at the ballot box and come up short with stalling tactics, they will resort to mob tactics to force their agenda,” he said. He added: “the louder they scream, the more we know that we are getting something done.”
He said what the state witnessed Tuesday was nothing more than the hijacking of the democratic process and told pro-lifers to match their intensity but in a respectful and dignified manner.
The pro-life issue is too important and discussed his call for another special session to pass the 20-week abortion ban, saying, ”I am bringing lawmakers back to Austin to finish their business,” he said. “I put pro-life measures at the top of that list.”
Nearly 80,000 unborn children are lost to abortion each year in Texas. “It breaks my heart,” he said. “Abortion is a human rights issue and is a scar on our national conscience.”
“We will ban abortions after 20 weeks. It makes sense because so many children are born prematurely,” the governor added.
Perry also talked about the abortion facility regulations in the bill.
“Any patient should have the expectation that any facilities being used for a medical procedure” should be up to standards, he said. “It is entirely their call” if abortion facilities wold rather close than operate under health and safety laws. We are under no obligation to make things easier for the abortionists. The ideal world is a world without abortion.”
“There are better options than to stop the beating heart of an unborn child,” he said.
Perry noted how pro-abortion legislator Wendy Davis rose from being a daughter of a single mother to go to Harvard and become an elected official. “Just unfortunate she hasn’t learned from her own example,” he said.
The governor said stopping abortion is a “just cause and a way to remember the 55 million who have been robbed of life.”
Perry 2016!
Fantastic Perry. I will be going. Any Freepers wanting to be there, let me know.
Fantastic Perry. I will be going. Any Freepers wanting to be there, let me know.
Session starts July 1st.
I don’t write the rules, I just get to throw out comments.
Perry is going to make a hero out of that Wendy woman.
To the fringe left, maybe.....but to the silent majority Perry is the hero.
the next Sandra Fluke.
Balls. He has them.
He would have gotten my primary vote in 2012. If he runs again, the same will be true. God bless him.
Idiots are already equating this “person” to Ann Richards and how she will resurrect the dims and win the governor seat.
Just think, right now Perry could be ripping the commies out of the various departments like a pit bull tearing up a sofa but NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Step away from the MSM boob tube. A vast majority of Americans are against abortion after the first trimester. A slight majority of the population thinks abortion should be illegal in almost every aspect except for the life of the mother. Science and rationality are on the pro-life side.
LOL, I know, right?
Sure he has warts, they all do....but he’s got something the rest don’t.....brass ones.
Oooh a hospital has to be within 30 miles of an abortion clinic....how evil. /s
Yeah right.
In the same state that elected Ted Cruz by 16 points.
Don’t forget also.. Cruz got 40 percent of the hispanic vote.
He ain’t going anywhere.
Agreed. All politicians are human...perfection is found only in Christ. But when I compare Perry to Obama, sheeeeeeesh......
Most murder mills are in cities where RATs breed an the hospitals are all around there are two within ten minutes. There is a murder mill right in the middle of both in a strip mall either a supermarket
Oh, we can expect the usual suspects to show up and tell us what worse hell we’d be living under Perry than poshitus any minute.
his position is brave. wendy davis, not so brave. butchering 24week old babies is cowardly and so is filibustering to keep it that way.
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