Posted on 06/24/2013 5:19:33 AM PDT by rimtop56
AUSTIN - – Republicans used their majority to cut short debate and give preliminary approval early Monday to some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country as time was running out on the Texas Legislature's special session.
Many members of the conservative majority had flyers on their desks that read "Psalm 139:13-14," which reads in part, "You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
Democrats gained strength from more than 800 demonstrators who packed the hallways of the Capitol carrying signs reading, "Stop the War on Women" to oppose Senate Bill 5. The measure would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and limit abortions to surgical centers.
Supporters say the bill will raise the standard of women's health care, but opponents point out the bill would shut down 37 out of 42 abortion clinics in the state.
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Ah, baby-killers were no doubt bussed in. These people are as bad as the Sudanese army.
Creating the “wedge issue” to keep people voting Republican.
This is a retreat from Ronald Reagan who took the position that with the exceptions of rape, incest, or the life of the mother, abortion should be illegal during the entire pregnancy, not just at 20 weeks.
A GOP state senator in my area has always been labeled “Pro-Abortion” for supporting it during the first 12 weeks.
Now with this retreat the insider GOP-E and their affiliated groups like National Right To Life get to label virtually all Republicans as “Pro-Life” when they aren’t even Pro-Life like Reagan was.
They are trying to use this issue to keep conservative religious voters ‘on the plantation’.
War on women? Try the war on babies. Someone has to speak for them.
I hope the Texas legislature keeps passing laws like this. Maybe it will keep liberals from moving down here and will encourage many of those who have to leave and take their voting patterns with them.
Wow. That’s this morning’s psalm in the Catholic daily Mass readings.
The aging harpies who were screaming for the murder of unborn women and men lost this vote, but the courts will make sure that these protections will be aborted, as they do in every other state that has tried to alter the Left’s sacrament of abortion. Democrats thirst for the blood of babies. God is marking their sin.
Reagan was wrong. He wasn’t a saint. There is more to life than winning elections.
The war on baby women.
OTOH, there is no momentum to overturn Roe v Wade so states cannot ban abortions without it being struck down in the courts. That’s why pro-lifers have nibbled at the edges with informed-consent laws and holding abortuaries to the same medical standards of clinics.
It isn’t that they have given up on protecting children at all. They are living with the reality of the times and the eventual likelihood that the SCOTUS will someday have five pro-aborts on the court again. All it takes is one Scalia or Thomas stepping down and Obama can put a pro-about in to replace him.
These laws are not a sop to religious conservatives, they are an effort to restrict the practice as much as legally possible and it has been working throughout the country as some states no longer have any abortuaries and some states have but a few. We are eradicating the extremists like Tiller and Gosnell who do the late-term stuff making it much harder for an elective abortion to be done later in the pregnancy.
It’s not keeping me on the plantation. I’d love to see an GOP alternative with a spine. Moreso, I’d love to see Texas secede and no longer be bound by American laws like Roe v Wade.
They were all wearing matching t-shirts.
LORD, I love my state!
God bless Texas.
I hear you but I see the fingerprints of business as usual politicians who know that because of Roe vs. Wade this legislation will be shot down by a federal court in the not too distant future.
Its designed to stir up emotion and passion to define business as usual GOP politicians like yours in TX as great pro-life champions when all they put on was a symbolic show to put off those like you who are so fed up they want Texas to declare its independence.
That idea is something the likes of Rick Perry would never do so they rev up the emotional speechmaking and symbolic lawmaking to keep you happy.
DONT BE FOOLED BY THE PHONY REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS.
Well, they’re not fooling me but I accept their efforts at face value. Even if it means Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have to waste money tying this up in the courts rather than spending the money on more abortions, that’s a good thing, isn’t it?
BTW, I hear this morning that some Democrat plans to filibuster from 10 a.m. to midnight in order to kill the bill because midnight is the end of the special session. Perry can always call a second special session.
I’ve already sent my prayers that this woman get a sudden case of lockjaw or dysentery or faint under the hot lights. God can choose the method but it would be a fun spectacle to see.
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