Posted on 10/02/2013 1:34:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Wendy Davis has spent much of the last few months being the most visible woman in Texas politics. After news leaked days ago that she is likely to fulfill the wish of progressives everywhere by running for governor of the Lone Star state, it was destined to only increase her star power.
But something unexpected happened.
The week that her big announcement was supposed to take the political world by storm, Davis appears to have had her thunder stolen by another Texas political leading lady. During an interview last weekend at the Texas Tribune Festival, Texas First Lady Anita Perry replied to a question about abortion by saying she sees it “as a woman’s right.”
A woman saying she sees abortion as “a woman’s right” is not exactly news. But a woman married to one of the most anti-choice governors in one of the most anti-choice states in the country saying she sees abortion as “a woman’s right” is news.
In the last year, Texas, my home state, has emerged as ground zero in the national reproductive rights debate, which is no longer strictly a debate over abortion, but also access to contraception and comprehensive women’s healthcare. Although Planned Parenthood managed to co-exist peacefully in the state with previous Republican governors like George W. Bush, current Gov. Rick Perry has gone after the organization like it’s one of his hunting targets.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
She inherited the mantle of Laura Bush.
Prohibiting late term abortion and seeking to reduce the number of botched abortions is somehow "anti-choice".
And I suspect it is Dan Patrick and others in state office that are pushing the abortion legislation. Perry's been in office since 2001.
“Admits she pro-abortion”
Does she speak in that dialect?
Another pro-abortion Republican wife with a whipped “pro-life” husband.
And this was the woman who blamed her husband’s bad showing during the presidential run to their “Christian” values. Nice.
This is a ploy by Republicans. Pro-life pols with pro-abort spouses. Peggy Goldwater, Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush. And Cindy McCain pro gay marriage.
Which she inherited from Barbara Bush.
If you do some research you will also find that Pat Nixon and Gerald Ford’s wives were also pro-abortion. Their husbands run and get elected on pro-life issues and secretly their wives are against what they put forth to the public. Its sickening. I was so dismayed when I heard Laura Bush go liberal on these very issues.
Ann Romney is pro-abortion also, as was her husband, Ford and his wife were pro-abortion but changed for a while for elections, as did HW Bush, Perot and his wife are strongly pro-abortion, Bob Dole seems to have been like Ford and HW.
I’d say it’s debatable how pro-life Reagan was. He may have changed his position but it wasn’t staunch enough to make sure he only appointed pro-life Supreme Court justices. I think G.W. was the most pro-life president we’ve had since Roe vs. Wade.
It seems like the pressure is enormous on women from other women to remain pro-abortion, especially the higher they get in the circles of power and wealth. And I think adult women are more vulnerable to peer pressure in general than men.
This article really plays fast and loose with the truth. For example, adopting the ruse that Planned Parenthood actually conducts a significant amount of women’s medical care other than abortion. If they do it at all, it is only for show.
And Barbara Bush. And Nancy Reagan. And Betty Ford.
It seems that Republican first ladies are required to be pro-aborts(sadly).
And Laura’s RINO mother-in-law, Bar.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants... bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society. Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors. [but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
Perry is done, he’s probably got a career running a pro-amnesty group somewhere lined up.
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