Texas governor mounts new bid for abortion restrictions

“Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, the Senate president, suspended the filibuster after ruling that Davis meandered off topic.”

If only there were some sort of “journalist” or “reporter” on hand to tell the readers what she actually said rather than simply repeating Dewhurst’s claim.

One thing about Republicans or the Party of NO is that they are running out of things to sell to Americans. The last resort seems to be to throw in their lot with corporations and try to win by buying and bribing their way in. We will see in the next elections but with the Coke boys throwing money at Romney and coming up short, I dont think the public is for sale.

“sgreco1970 wrote:
A banner day for the GOP! All in one day, they have ensured minorities will be bullied out of their vote and that women will get mangled with coat hangers in the alley once again!

May they all rot in hell and their daughters die in alleys after trying to abort the babies of their rapists. Scumbags.”

Left Wing Extremism can be most comical at times.

WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH THE GOP these clowns just hate everything and everybody, on both sides of the aisle our “elected” officials have done more to harm U.S. citizens then any group of terrorists ever could hope for, the supreme court is an absolute joke, these guys just wreak of an extremely corrupt GANG, hell bent on destroying this country as we know it, and the GOP just keeps up their stupid anti-american hatred and the democrats just seem willing to keep feeding the GOP and everytime the GOP barks they cower in the corner, this is ridiculous, and as far as leaving the country NOBODY wants Americans in their country we have become THE laughing stock for the entire world…

Not quite, it is the Obama administration that is the laughing stock, not America.

Not quite, it is the Obama administration that is the laughing stock, not America.

ajsfca – no my friend, it is not Obama. The Flat Earth Republican Party, denying climate change, dancing and singing its voodoo rituals to made-up Gods, starting unjust wars, and enslaving this country to the corporate profit interest, is what the world doesn’t much care for.

“In Texas, we value all life,
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Except for the lives of those the State executes, 500 and counting now. Rank hypocrisy is all they know!

Last night, Texas began turning blue. May it happen soon.

Texas…lol

sgreco1970,
I have stood for choice for many years. I totally refuse to be associated with you in any way. Your ill will for the innocent daughters of the knuckle-dragging idiots in the Texas Lege is unworthy of any movement to protect women from such idiots. Shame on you. You are not a liberal/progressive, you are just…like…them. We don’t need you.

This makes me so angry the way the Republicans disrespect women in general! They want to make the choice for you or they will make it hard for you or Humiliate you….the disrespect minorities or make it hard for them if they can’t get their way in keeping them out.
Poor people, well they think they don’t deserve the air they breath…..the environment, it’s just something for them to use up to make money here and now who cares if its here in the future….

Just as the Bible says about the generation of the last days..
“without natural affection”. People, even leaders who oppose
anything that limits the killing of babies. How much more depraved
can a society become?

@Mandingo

YOu do realize Obama’s campaign far outspent Romney’s, right? If anything, the election proved that the American public can be bought.

To think that self proclaimed savior Perry could have been president. SCAREY! He’d send all “non-”Moral Minority”(majority is GONE) believers” to Gitmo and execute anyone who talks abortion. Zieg Heil!
Those GOP despots want to put women “back in the kitchen” and take away their rights?
NO WAY! We’ve come a long way baby!

To think that self proclaimed savior Perry could have been president. SCAREY! He’d send all “non-”Moral Minority”(majority is GONE) believers” to Gitmo and execute anyone who talks abortion. Zieg Heil!
Those GOP despots want to put women “back in the kitchen” and take away their rights?
NO WAY! We’ve come a long way baby!

Still wondering about the state where I was born and grew up, how in the world they keep electing idiots like Perry and the other republicans is just beyond me.

@PatrickAupperle, you do realize that Obama funds came from the people who donated to his election, not sure how that adds to the American public being bought, since they gave more dollars to Obama than Mitt, I’d say America voted with their pocketbook.

@Speaker2
Not so fasat. There were a lot of internet donations where the donor was not record. Neither was their country. Obama never answered questions about where those donations came from but assured us they were all from Americans. Maybe so, but I don’t think their record of honesty (actually lack thereof) lends any credibility to that claim. I seriously doubt the ‘American’ people voted their pocketbook.

That doesn’t take into consideration the many fundraisers he attends continuously where admission is a several thousand dollar donation. Or the Hollywood elites who donated hundreds of thousands if not millions to his Obama’s campaign. Again, not the ‘American people’ but, dare I say it, the rich elite. Funny how liberals villify rich conservatives and their donations to conservative causes but ignore that many of their causes are funded by rich liberals.

Kudos to the citizens of Texas who showed up in Austin to protest the little Kremlin governing the state and interfering in the private lives of its citizens. Wisconsin showed the way with the Madison protests over the draconian changes to the state budget rammed through by the Republicans. Time to take the country back from the medical luddites and religious fanatics.

@libertas, most of his funds came from small donations. You don’t get it, republicans are a minority in this country. You guys on the right are headed toward extinction.

@Speaker2 – Precisely. I just wish this process of their extinction would speed up.

If we outlaw abortion, we cannot complain when we find fetuses in dumpsters and ditches. We cannot complain when women take drastic measures to avoid bearing an unwanted child. We cannot complain when supplemental programs like SNAP and TANF explode in cost because of increased caseloads. There is a much bigger picture here and it’s amazing how many people can’t see more than three feet in front of them.

If you don’t want to have an abortion, don’t have one. If you want to get an abortion, it should be available for you do to in a safe manner.

If you want someone else to believe what you believe and live the way you want them to, too bad. You have no right to force anyone to live in your purview of the subjective terms “right” and “wrong”. That’s what the Taliban does (and unfortunately, a majority of Christians, too).

Well if we started sex education in grade school. If we provided free birth control options in school. If we stopped making sex into something evil unless your married there would be far fewer abortions and unplanned babies.

But no, the religious right and republican makes sex into something that is bad, restrict sex education, restricts birth control options and then insist on trying to outlaw abortions all based on some outdated tribal taboos dating back a few thousand years ago.

Teens and young people have sex, why, because it feels GOOD and being horny is a natural part of growing up. Funny how in Europe where sex education and birth control are part of the education process, there are fewer unplanned babies and fewer abortions….

Plus there are other reasons to have abortions, such as birth defects, women’s health, babies produced by rape etc.

Its just too bad the right don’t practice what they preach and not have sex, then we would have fewer republicans….instead like Michelle Bachman, they breed like rats.

Democrats do not care if abortion is safe, only that it is legal. Would you really want a doctor doing a surgical prcedure on you that does not have hospital privileges? Do you really want to be located more than 30 miles from a hospital if something went wrong and you needed urgent care? I wouldn’t take my dog to a clinic like Dr. Gosnell’s, but hey, it should be perfectly fine to allow abortions in such a place according to Democrats.

Let him. If the Republicans and Perry pass this it will win them this battle but long term lose the war. They are digging themselves a deeper hole for the future.

Why is it that the party of god in Texas is never too concerned when they execute a innocent person?

Why is it that the party of god in Texas is never too concerned when they execute a innocent person?

Perry says he values all life yet Texas has highest rate of putting prisoners to death and meanwhile the bloodbath of America’s wars rages on.

Is it just me or is the GOP in Texas being selective in its adherence to “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. What about the state execution of criminals or for that matter those who prove to be innocent. I recall during the Obamacare debate that they did not want the State getting between you and your doctor. Does this not apply to what is proposed in this bill… or was that rant we do not want the state getting between him and his doctor?

What this woman is doing is extremely heartening. Texas has an abysmal record taking care of children already born, in education, health, and their natural environment.
Here’s how Rick ‘clueless’ Perry would LIKE to do it: Draw his six-shooter out, put it to the the pregnant women’s skulls and say,”Bear down mama, or meet your maker.”

These mostly male legislators have no business intruding into women’s very personal lives and trying to take over their decision-making processes. What offensive and pernicious arrogance!

The speaker of the assembly was caught lying about a forged time stamp on the computer record of the vote – when he said originally it had passed in time.

But, one of the Dems took a photo of the before and after and posted it on Twitter and the Republican creep was caught in his lie.

Actually looking at the bill instead of playing a freakin D vs R game of chicken: abortions after 20wks should only be legal in the case of the pregnancy threatening the life of the mother. The first 19wks of pregnancy is plenty of time to decide whether you want to terminate – hell, the determination is usually made in the first 8wks. From what I understand of the science, a foetus of 22wks can survive outside the womb (with lots of medical help); some think it’s 20wks and others 24, but the youngest I’ve heard of ACTUALLY surviving is 22wks. So why is it evil to say that you shouldn’t be able to kill a viable baby? Why is five months not enough time to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy?

I’m not saying this what team R actually has in mind, but it is a reasonable position to take, provided they do not hinder abortions for foetii under 20wks if women want it. If they jump in that gumbo then I’ll lead the protest against them and not rest until they learn their place. But this? Sounds like common sense to me…

One of the ten commandments says thou shall not kill and yet the Texas Holy ones of the GOP loves to execute their prisoners .. Wonder just how many of the 500 they have executed was really innocent . Bush had said they were all guilty but I am sure that many,many were not .

Amazing that so many people who if they had a duck nest in their yard and saw mama duck sitting on it for two weeks would feel terrible that a rodent got in and ate the 1/2 developed ducks in the eggs, those poor baby ducks, yet they shout to the heavens that killing a fetus at 5 months is okay and not limited in any way.

CDN_Rebel simply knows nothing about medicine, pregnancy – or individual liberty. But, limiting women’s rights shouldn’t be an American standard.

I hope that this is a sign that the clod-hoppers that run Texas are at the end of their run. This place is a joke.

@mauricio0595
We NEED the ducks.

Silly people thinking one political party is better than the other. It is a one party system at this point. Socialism in the ONLY way to fix this mess. Bring the power to the people. Unless one likes being controlled by the super rich.

@Texas, have fun dealing with the new influx of unwanted babies. We all know that the fostering systems are fully funded and ready to handle this mess.

Good luck getting the minority and women votes the GOP sorely needs next election. Attacking women’s rights while attacking minority voting rights is not a good combo for elections.

what can you expect from a governor that feels the recent explosion that took many lives had nothing to do with lack of regulation? what can you expect from a governor that advertises the lack of regulation for business in his state and turns a blind eye to the horrors comitted against immigrant undocumented women by large companies in Texas? in essense this law will leave the state of Texas with just 3 clinics that be able to perform services for low income women. But that is how the poor and low salaried are treated, just remenber that at voting time and all of you that disagree organize and vote all of them out of office.

The degree of stupidity that Rick Perry exhibits is the reason Republicans have been having such a hard time getting elected lately. Their core constituency will not compromise any of their idiotic “principles”, but they can’t get a majority outside that inbred core. The party needs to dump the hard-liners and get a new lease on political life.

These Evangelicals are no better than the Islamist. They both seek to enforce their own beliefs on others by any means. It is their way or the highway.

Why can’t these duplicate posting be eliminated?

Yet another journalist revealing bias?!:

“Republican backers said the regulation of abortion clinics would protect women’s health and that the ban on late-term abortions would protect fetuses, based on DISPUTED research that suggests fetuses feel pain by 20 weeks of development.”

There are Democrats in Texas?

Speaker2,
I agree with non-abortive birth control and sex education in schools. I’m center-right. As for Europe, you do realize that abortion is illegal in many parts of Europe, right? So is gay marriage (and if they do have that it’s civil unions most of the time). So, if you persist on using Europe as an argument for the enlightened, well, then look at the whole picture.

So the house of horrors in Philadelphia was bad – Democrats universally agreed – yet those same Democrats now argue against legislation that would enforce hospital-like hygiene and medical standards for this medical procedure AND insist on the need of mothers to be able to abort their children five months after conception…

How do Democrats plan on fighting horrors like the Gosnell clinic?

As abortions have increased, the number of children available for adoptions has decreased, driving hopeful parents overseas to adopt children.

With “free” birth control why would there EVER be an unwanted pregnancy after Obamacare “kicks-in”?

If there is a rise in the number of unwanted children being born in Texas as a result of this legislation, it will simply make more children available for adoption…