Posted on 07/07/2013 5:20:04 PM PDT by Morgana
Governor Rick Perry appeared on a Sunday current events television show and pledged that the Texas legislature will pass and he will sign the bill that bans late-term abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
A Texas state House committee approved the bill last week and more legislative action is expected on Monday and Tuesday.
The last attempt to pass the bill was halted in the state Senate with a pro-abortion filibuster but state Sen. Wendy Davis says she will not filibuster the bill a second time.
In his interview, Perry defended comments he made about pro-abortion lawmaker Wendy Davis.
“She was a teenage mother herself,” Perry said of Davis last month. “She managed to eventually graduate from Harvard Law School and serve in the Texas Senate. It’s just unfortunate that she hasn’t learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance to realize its full potential and that every life matters.”
From Perry’s Sunday television appearance:
“We have a special session with some important issues in front of us. We’re going to pass some restrictions on abortion in Texas so that Texas is a place where we defend life. That’s the powerful message here, that’s what we’re focused on,” Perry said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We can be in and out of here in another 10 days… we will get this done and get Texas back focused on the economic interests.”
Perry also defended remarks he’d made that it was “unfortunate” that Davis, a single mother, “hasn’t learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance to reach its full potential and that every life matters.”
“Those comments were meant to be a compliment to her for what she’s accomplished in her life,” Perry said by way of explanation. “My point was that saving a life and letting that life come to its fulfillment and all the good things that happen, you never know who’s going to be considered to be an extraordinary individual.”
The Texas governor also doubled down on criticism of protesters who flooded the state senate’s balcony during the filibuster to shout their support for Davis and opposition to the bill.
“It was the gallery that was out of control, literally out of control… anyone who watched that would consider it to be mob rule,” Perry said. “Rules were followed on the Senate floor. It was the decorum of the Senate chamber that was put in a bad light.”
Perry said he expected disruptive protestors would be removed from the building during the second session.
“The taking of life after twenty weeks is what this is about,” Perry said. “The killing of babies that are viable outside their mom’s bodies after twenty weeks is what this is about. A lot of folks really don’t want to talk about that. They would like to focus on practically anything rather than to say we support that process.”
The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks and hold abortion clinics accountable by making them meet basic health and safety standards that have closed facilities in other states that are unable to comply. The bill also requires all abortion clinics to meet the same health and safety regulations as an ambulatory surgical center, requires a doctor providing abortions to secure admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, and lastly, requires a doctor to personally administer the abortion-inducing drugs to the patient.The hearing saw the halls packed with over 2,100 people wanting to testify on the bill — with most of them pro-life and supporting it. The final count on the bill was 3,543 who registered a position with the Texas government computer system — 2,181 supporting the bill and 1,335 against it.“In terms of witnesses, the system has never seen overload like this,” said Rep. Helen Giddings, the vice chairwoman of the House State Affairs Committee.The state House is expected to debate the bill on July 9 after the Texas legislature returns from its Independence Day recess.
Perry issued a call for a special session of the Texas legislature to pass the bill that a pro-abortion mob prevented the legislature from passing it.
“I am calling the Legislature back into session because too much important work remains undone for the people of Texas. Through their duly elected representatives, the citizens of our state have made crystal clear their priorities for our great state,” Perry said. “Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn. Texans want a transportation system that keeps them moving. Texans want a court system that is fair and just. We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do.”
Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst addressed the National Right to Life Convention in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday, affirming his commitment to passing protective legislation for mothers and their unborn children in the upcoming second special legislative session.
“I am not discouraged. We will pass this bill out of the legislature,” he said.
The filibuster was not the only impediment to passage of the bill — a noisy group of abortion advocates made it impossible for members of the Senate to conduct business and that may happen again — making it so Dewhurst will need to step up and regain control of the chamber so the bill can be debated and a vote taken.
Texas legislators on Monday filed a new bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and hold abortion facilities accountable for breaking health and safety laws after a pro-abortion mob derailed the previous bill.
Abortion advocates protested at the state capitol but pro-lifers drowned them out with signing of Amazing Grace. The paid protesters opposing the late-term abortion ban in Texas are also doing more than rallying outside the legislature against the pro-life bill. They’re threatening pro-life state legislators and their staffers.
Call and email YOUR Representative and Senator starting on Monday with a simple message, “Please speak, stand, and vote FOR HB 2. My support will be significantly determined by the vote on this bill.” Visit this link to confirm your correct Representative and Senator: http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/Home.aspx
It is.
And, since the Republicans are a bunch of judicial supremacists, and not actually constitutional republicans, that will be that.
They'll get their fake pro-life credentials burnished again for the next election, NRTL will get it's fundraising copy, and abortion on demand will continue unabated. The babies will continue to die en masse.
“They’ll get their fake pro-life credentials burnished again for the next election”
That don’t amount for a hill of beans when they stand before God. That is unless in their hearts they really meant it. I want to believe some of them do.
Your post just doesn't bear with reality. We've seen these sorts of morally and constitutionally compromised bills for forty years. NRTL will do anything except face the core of the matter: the self-evident personhood of the child and the required equal protection that our Constitution absolutely demands.
These bills sacrifice every moral, constitutional and legal argument against abortion. They are a surrender, right up front, every single time.
"The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment...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."
-- Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe vs. Wade, 1973
That doesn't make any sense. These lawless "laws" actually grant explicit "legal" permission to kill certain disfavored classifications of human persons. There is no next step after that. You've destroyed the foundations for law in America at that point.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
But (respectfully because we both are after the same thing) your way has been tried, over and over, since 1973 and the abortion laws have become more and more liberal.
It’s time the pro-life movement start moving the pendulum in the other direction, even if it is incrementally.
Again, IMO.
Nonsense. My way has not been tried. Your way, a way that is both morally-flawed and strictly unconstitutional, has been tried again, and again, and again.
The National Right to Life strategy should have been recognized as the utter failure it is years ago. It’s time for sincere pro-lifers to reject them, and to return to self-evident truth and eternal principle. That’s the only thing God is going to bless.
If you have the governmental power to regulate child murder, you have the power to stop it entirely.
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So, you think Texas should just banish abortion in the state instead if this bill? Do you think this could easily be done?
I will be there. I encourage all the prolifers to come out and help us here, we need everyone we can get
This is a significant step forward towards the ultimate step of the elimination of abortion altogether.
The most significant part is clinic standards are being stepped up. This is dire for abortion clinics here which do not receive any public funding since Perry cut them off.
So, I’ll tell all the prolifers here. If you can come, please do.
Yes. Strip one paragraph out of the existing code, the section Perry and the Republicans put there ten years ago, which explicitly authorizes the murder of innocent, helpless little persons.
Texas Penal Code, Title 5, Chapter 19, Sec. 19.06., to be precise:
Sec. 19.06. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN CONDUCT. This chapter does not apply to the death of an unborn child if the conduct charged is:
(1) conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child;
(2) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent, if the death of the unborn child was the intended result of the procedure;
(3) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent as part of an assisted reproduction as defined by Section 160.102, Family Code; or
(4) the dispensation of a drug in accordance with law or administration of a drug prescribed in accordance with law.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 822, Sec. 2.02, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
An odious bit of lawlessness, that...
Of course, even after you do that you need executive branch officers who have the courage and the commitment to fulfill their sworn oaths to support the Constitution of the United States.
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Doesn’t Iowa still do abortions?
No, it is making a bad state code even worse.
They do, thanks to the “pro-life” “Republicans” who continue to push bad legislation at the behest of National Right to Life.
My representative, who understands his oath, offered a bill that went straight to the murder code to protect ALL persons, as the Constitution explicitly, imperatively requires.
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
The GOP “leadership” shot it down, of course. They were too busy cutting deals to once again fund abortions via the Medicaid bill, and pushing immoral, unconstitutional legislation just like the bill Perry is pushing in Texas.
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How does it compare to the current state code in Iowa?
“The GOP “leadership” shot it down, of course.”
So what you are saying is your way was tried and it failed to pass. Thank you.
We’re trying and winning. This is a winning argument and we are going to get this bill passed and save babies. We are already saving babies, because the opposition has revealed it’s extreme position.
In order to put in a clean code section, one that would protect every single person, from conception, it was necessary to go in and strike large sections of anti-personhood, anti-equality language that has been put there by the “pro-life” “Republicans” over the course of many years.
Telling, that...
You don't win anything by surrendering.
And this bill surrenders the commands of God, the natural moral law, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, every clause of the stated purposed of the Constitution, and its explicit, imperative equal protection requirements.
Blocked by your allies.
Besides, right and wrong are not determined by temporary success or failure.
Are you a Christian, or a Utilitarian? Can't be both.
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