Posted on 08/06/2013 11:16:37 AM PDT by Nachum
Texas state senator Wendy Davis spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon about her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting late-term abortion, her life story, and her future in politics.
Davis has become a champion for pro-choice activists, but during her recent whirlwind national media tour, she never commented on late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of murder in May for killing infants moments after they were born.
Following her Press Club speech on Monday, THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked Davis to explain the difference between the late-term abortions that the Texas state senator wants to keep legal and the illegal Gosnell killings.
Davis didn't answer the question. "I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case," she told me.
THE WEEKLY STANDARD: The supporters of these bans, they argue that there really isn't much of a difference between what happened in that Philadelphia case with abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell [killing born-alive infants] 23 weeks into pregnancy and legal late-term abortions at 23 weeks. What is the difference between those two, between legal abortion at 23 weeks and what Gosnell did? Do you see a distinction between those two [acts]?
SEN. WENDY DAVIS: I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case. But I do know that it happened in an ambulatory surgical center. And in Texas changing our clinics to that standard obviously isn't going to make a difference. The state of the law obviously has to assure that doctors are providing safe procedures for women and that proper oversight by the health and human services department is being given. It sounds as though there was a huge gap in that oversight, and no one can defend that. But that's not the landscape of what's happening in Texas.
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ewwww... you can almost hear the oil dripping off that dissembly
It is a question pro-aborts cannot honestly answer. So, they either answer a different question, like Wendy, or make up a lie.
For liberals, the problem is always not enough government and the solution is always more government.
Wendy Davis is a hack opportunist who is basing her political reputation on the shed blood of millions of innocent babies. Her actions are disgusting and reprehensible, akin to selling your soul to the devil in exchange for fame and fortune.
Let us hope she becomes the Dem candidate for governor.
Easy enough, he murdered babies you STD ridden skank.
That dish-water blonde skank will never win a state-wide race in TX. The rest of the state is embarrassed that another Ft. Worth Leftist has gained notoriety, as old “Ft. Worthless Jim” Wright did before her.
BS. But, I must admit that this is a savvy political answer to a "trap" question.
She's smarter than she looks, and is an opponent to pay attention to.
There is a certain twisted logic there; if it’s legal to kill a person on one side of their mother’s cervix, why isn’t it legal to kill them on the other side?
Is the Right to Life based on anatomy and “geography”?
Does not know or does not care?
The catheter went in to far and hit her in the forehead.
“Easy enough, he murdered babies you STD ridden skank.”
Hahahahaha Don’t hold back, tell us how you REALLY feel. But I wholeheartedly agree. Doesn’t know what happened, my ass.
Oh please run for governor Wendy. Greg Abbott will beat you by double digits.
She is a lying witch.
And the lying witch in my District.
How stid does she think Dem voters are?
‘I don’t know what happened in the Gosnell case. But I do know that it happened in an ambulatory surgical center”
so you don’t know what happened but you know it was in a surgical center??
What a POS she is
Exactly. That's the contradiction the pro-aborts can never explain away. A baby can't be human on one side of the cervix and "fetal material" on the other. It makes no medical, scientific or moral sense.
That's why the evil Peter Singer doesn't even try to make the argument. He admits it's a human being killed in an abortion and he is just fine with that.
Peebagger Ping...
I hope she runs. She will have the Depends beat off her like a June bug on a screen door.
She should be made to sit down and look at every photo that exist of abortions and initial the photos that she has seen them... Let her get her head around her lust for the murder of the innocents then....
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