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Governor Perry Vows Texas Will Pass Ban on Late-Term Abortions
life news ^ | Steven Ertelt

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; moralabsolutes; obamacare; prolife; rickperry; texas; zerocare
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To: EternalVigilance

Your way has been tried before. It didn’t work. So what do you do? Do you keep trying something that didn’t work?

Do you stop what you are doing and wait for favourable winds?

Or do you get cracking and get to work with what we have today?

I hear you. The legislation is not ideal. Absolutely I agree with you here. However, it is an opportunity to reach out to a whole horde of hurting people who believe that abortion is their best option. We can reach out to these folks and convince them of the absolute truth that the unborn is a human person.

Some will not turn. Some will. I was one of those folks 10 years ago when someone shoved graphic pictures in my face and showed me the truth about abortion. And I try to do what I can, *today* to go save some babies.

I am going to be sitting out on the legislature steps all day tomorrow. And hopefully helping out on Tuesday and on Wednesday. Why? Because I believe this bill will save babies. Today. Not some far off time when the winds are favourable. Today.


41 posted on 07/07/2013 7:46:07 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge

Would you support a bill that explicitly granted positive “legal” permission to shoot paraplegics in the chest?

They won’t feel a thing, right?

Isn’t that the “reasoning” in the current Perry bill?


42 posted on 07/07/2013 7:47:17 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: EternalVigilance

“Besides, right and wrong are not determined by temporary success or failure.”

“Whatsoever you did not do for the least of these, you also did not do for me.”

We are not called to be successful. We are called to try. And that means making the best we can with what we have here.


43 posted on 07/07/2013 7:47:49 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge

You’re not going to convince folks by giving up the moral, constitutional, and legal principles that argue against abortion. That’s a mirage.


44 posted on 07/07/2013 7:48:38 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: JCBreckenridge
We are not called to be successful. We are called to try. And that means making the best we can with what we have here.

But you're trying something that has failed over and over again for forty years. As it had to, because it was not morally, constitutionally, or legally sound.

45 posted on 07/07/2013 7:50:51 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: EternalVigilance
Ahhhh! I see your point now.

Sorry, I mis-interpreted what you were saying. It seemed as though you meant a woman should be able to kill her child and and any law preventing such is "immoral". My mistake, and I wholeheartedly agree with you.

46 posted on 07/07/2013 7:51:48 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: EternalVigilance

If it meant shutting down a substantial portion of the paraplegic euthanasia clinics, absolutely, yes I would.

And then tomorrow I’d be right out there calling to end the killing. Same as I was yesterday, except now there’s fewer people dying.

It’s not either/or, EternalVigilence. Just because one supports Perry’s bill doesn’t mean that I cannot support a bill banning abortion tomorrow.


47 posted on 07/07/2013 7:53:04 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: EternalVigilance

“You’re not going to convince folks by giving up the moral, constitutional, and legal principles that argue against abortion. That’s a mirage.”

Again, it’s not either/or. How we go about eliminating abortion is a prudential judgement and while you are permitted to disagree, you are not permitted to actively work against those who are choosing to help here.

End stop.

Are you going to be on the steps of the legislature first thing tomorrow morning? Yes or no? If no, then you have no say into what is being done here. You can either get on the train or you can choose not to board. That is your decision, not mine.

As for me, I’ve made my choice. I’m standing with Perry here. These are substantial restrictions and they will result in fewer children dying. A successful vote today will save babies. It won’t save all, but it will save some.


48 posted on 07/07/2013 7:56:49 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge
It’s not either/or

When you're talking about life and about equal protection, it is "either/or," intrinsically. That's what you don't get.

If you're not alive, you're dead. If the laws treat certain classes of persons unequally, there is no equal protection.

There are no gray areas in these most crucially important areas that the founders of this free republic placed before anything else, and described as the very raison d'etre, or reason for being, of government.

"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..."

That, sir, is the foundation of American constitutional, republican self-government. Without it, the whole edifice of American law and civilization will inevitably collapse.

That's a lot to sacrifice for a bill that is nothing more than political theater in the first place.

49 posted on 07/07/2013 8:08:01 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: EternalVigilance

“That’s a lot to sacrifice for a bill that is nothing more than political theater in the first place.”

I see. I take it you voted for Romney then?


50 posted on 07/07/2013 8:11:49 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge
I’m standing with Perry here.

Let's be clear. You're standing with a politician who is in breach of his sacred oath to provide equal protection to every person in his state's jurisdiction.

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution..."

-- Article VI, the United States Constitution

"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

-- The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

"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 Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

51 posted on 07/07/2013 8:12:13 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: JCBreckenridge
I see. I take it you voted for Romney then?

No. I don't support politicians who refuse to provide equal protection for every person, as the oath requires.

52 posted on 07/07/2013 8:13:11 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: EternalVigilance

So what do you propose be done? Keep doing something which doesn’t work over and over again until it does work?

Or wait until the winds are favourable, do nothing and then try again?


53 posted on 07/07/2013 8:19:49 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge

I’ve already spelled it out earlier in the thread: Strike Texas Penal Code, Title 5, Chapter 19, Sec. 19.06., which Perry put there ten years ago, which authorizes the killing of innocent little boys and girls.

Badabing. Abortion is now illegal in the great State of Texas. Shut down the killing centers immediately.


54 posted on 07/07/2013 8:23:15 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Texas Penal Code, Title 5, Chapter 19, Sec. 19.06.

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.


55 posted on 07/07/2013 8:24:05 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: EternalVigilance

“which Perry put there ten years ago, which authorizes the killing of innocent little boys and girls.”

Ok, so we do that next. See you at the Capitol building tomorrow.


56 posted on 07/07/2013 8:27:31 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge
Ok, so we do that next.

You will already have surrendered, and made the Texas Code even worse. I learned some time ago not to put confidence in those who will compromise today to do the right thing "someday over the rainbow."

57 posted on 07/07/2013 8:31:09 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: JCBreckenridge

I won’t be there tomorrow. I don’t support either “side” in this faux fight over exactly how and when to “legally” murder children.


58 posted on 07/07/2013 8:33:25 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: EternalVigilance

“I won’t be there tomorrow.”

“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” - Patton.

Your plan isn’t ready and we are going to war again tomorrow. We don’t have time for your plan, sir.


59 posted on 07/07/2013 8:35:43 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge

Quit pretending that violating the most important aspects of the sacred oath of office is somehow a “good plan.”


60 posted on 07/07/2013 8:38:51 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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