Texas governor slams state lawmaker who stalled abortion bill

So GOD went on vacation, and left Perry in charge?
Just who does he think he is to try and impose his will on people.
He’s only one person with one point of view, albeit a wrong one.
Only in Texas could such a chest thumping, ego-maniac get elected.
His voice falls on deaf ears, and count for nothing except babble.
When GOD returns, Perry will have to suffer consequences for sure.
We sure hope that day comes sooner rather than later………….

Finally someone who has the courage to stand up for righteousness! Legalized murder is not the answer. This man is the last voice of hope for the USA.

Democrats across the land thank Rick Perry for being a strong face of the Republican Party. :-)

Perry is running for president — what he does to Texas is not significant so long as he makes national headlines.

As a guy who’s voted Republican most of his life (but twice for Obama since Bush disaster), boy am I glad we didn’t chose another Republican to the high office. As long as these Bible thumpers have their fingers on the arteries of the Republican Party, they won’t get my vote…

Perry may be running for President, but even the Republican party will never be that loony. However, he has a very good chance at being the next Republican vice presidential candidate, assuming that the Republicans continue the wing nut idiot tradition of Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan.

Look, if you don’t like abortions, then don’t have one. But why do you try to tell other people what to do? I certainly hope the repugnants keep this up for three more years. Wendy might just be president if Clinton doesn’t run.

5 months is more than enough time to get an abortion, at this point, the fetus can feel pain and responds to external stimuli. Seems very reasonable.

“A teenage mother born to a single mother”? In the world I grew up in, neither of those titles was a badge of honor.

“A teenage mother born to a single mother”? In the world I grew up in, neither of those titles was a badge of honor.

What self-respecting tea bagger doesn’t want a misogynistic, gun toting psychopath to be President or Vice President?

…a teenage mother born of a single mother? Neither of those is a badge of honor.

@1942.bill and if you had sex education and free birth control in school, you would have fewer unwanted babies and abortions… teenagers are horny people, part of growing up.

So? Perry is irrelevant. His better days are behind him. He has absolutely no future at the national level and his days as the state level are over. He’s too stupid to be taken on as a lobbyist so I suppose that he, too, will take up painting.

Tricky Ricky lecturing a woman with more sense in her little finger than he has in his whole body. Lunkhead Rick who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time presumes to lecture a woman with more character and grit than he could possibly understand. Can’t wait for Governor Rick’s next missive for the people of Texas as it will be another doozy. Imagine he thought he could be President. Wow we dodged that bullet.

Perry has no clue about democratic processes. He’s simply interested in shoving his Religious Right agend up the azzes of the rest of us.

The best thing to come out of Ms. Davis’ filabuster was chance for the world to see the hyprocisy of Texas Republicans in all its glory in real time.

my wife is 18 weeks and her belly is huge. we’ve had a few ultrasounds and there is really a baby in there. at 20 weeks, this should be an ethical/moral no brainer. the woman has had 5 months to decide … i support perry.

@TheRightThing: Even dead frogs response to external stimuli. Why do I doubt that you would?

Abortions after 20 weeks are for medical reasons – either the life of the mother is in danger, or the child is dead. The bill proposed would not allow ANY abortions after 20 weeks. Also, the bill requires all abortion providers (no matter what week of the fetus) to have unreasonable surgical facilities, and a doctor with surgical privileges at a hospital within 20 miles. That’s not reasonable – and many hospitals are anti-choice and won’t grant the privileges. Of the 37 existing clinics, all but 5 would have to close. This means many women in Texas would have to drive 13 hours to get an abortion procedure. Most of these women are very poor – the gasoline alone would be cost-prohibitive on top of the cost of the abortion.

Further, the cost for the State of Texas for these babies to be born will be untold millions. Again, these fetuses are usually aborted after 20 weeks due to extraordinary problems. Many of them will live in total pain – and only for a few months – often just in the NICU. Who is paying for all that care for these desperately malformed babies of poor mothers? Texas taxpayers.

Finally, I think there will still be abortions – but given that 32 clinics will have to close – most abortions will be the back-alley type. This means a lot of poor mothers arriving at ERs with major infections and internal bleeding. Again, who pays? The tax payers of Texas are going to pay.

This is going to be a very, very expensive bill.

Wow the women are so lucky to have brilliant men making choices for them. So pro life!OH UM Pro life folks in Texas what about your assembly line death chambers. Congrats on 500 executions. So pro life!

Is Governor oops trying to be ironic. On the same day that Perry signs Texas’s 500th death warrant he blasts Sen. Davis for being “anti life” What a joke these “pro lifers” are.

Meh… Twenty weeks is 5 months. A 6 month old born premature has a strong chance of living. I don’t see the big issue. I am pro-choice, but what are your limits people? Do you think we should be able to just snap a babies neck when they are born as long as they haven’t started breathing yet?

@Speaker2

I say make the day after pill cost a quarter and put it in gumball machines at your local pharmacy. Then the whole abortion issue could be avoided for the most part.

Still fighting over a woman’s right to choose? Wendy Davis being here was a right choice; just the same as the rightness of her not bring here- Evrrything’s relative, isn’t it?

Well Perry again shows he has no class what so ever.
For those not paying attention, the 20 weeks isn’t the big issue here. The fact that over 90% of the clinics in Texas will have to close due to this bill is the issue.
I have to congratulate the men in Texas for their continued success with their war women.

@Whipsplash

“For those not paying attention, the 20 weeks isn’t the big issue here. The fact that over 90% of the clinics in Texas will have to close due to this bill is the issue.”

I didn’t know that. Rick Perry and those who voted for this should be forced to adopt or pay for the children in the form of child support payments for every unwanted pregnancy they prevented from being terminated.

JayneBirkin just enlightened us all. Men should have no say when it comes to these matters. Good thing republicans have the female vote all wrapped up so this won’t matter to them one bit………..

@TheNewWorld
For decades I always thought that if the religious right really wanted to do something about abortions, if they were really serious about their concern for the unborn child then they should put their money where their mouth is and draft legislation to provide free birth control.
Well, we recently found out that the right doesn’t want to provide free birth control, which tells me a lot about the party.

Rick Perry and his mother (in fact every person) when they consent to sex also consent to abortion, though not pregnancy. 70 percent of conceptions abort naturally in the first trimester. One cannot have sex without implied consent to abortion. So Rick’s admonition that Sen. Davis should be happy her mother did not abort is simply a case of him forgetting that every woman that consents to sex consents to abortion and that even Rick Perry consents to abortion 2.33 times for every child he fathers. Rick aren’t you glad your mother aborted 2.33 babies so that you could be born?

“of deciding whether to choose adoption, end a pregnancy, or raise a child” (To give a plainer definition, end a pregnancy means to murder
a baby).

The reason behind every unwanted pregnancy and abortion is an uncontrolled penis. Men have no moral right whatsoever to be deciding what women do. If men just controlled their penises the abortion issue would disappear immediately.

“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,” Perry said as he signed the 500th death warrant for the State of Texas.

America has forgotten the lessons of Sodom and Gomorrah.

1. Equating convicted felons on death row to fetuses is dumb. Convicted felons made choices to be where they are. The fetus is a victim of a choice made by others.
2. The religious right will not be handing out free birth control ever. The Catholic faith does not believe in birth control. The religious right should be ADOPTING these babies and caring for the birth mother through her pregnancy, but they are not.
3. The “natural” abortion vs. the “man-made” abortion is a stupid argument. Now you’ll start telling me we should just consent to “man-made” climate change because “natural” climate change occurs too.
4. These clinics need to be there to take of the women, but there needs to be better options for these ladies to really help them. Abortion is generally treating a symptom to a greater issue that remains unresolved.

Why would anyone expect anything less (more?) from Perry – he’s just doing the three things he set out to do from the beginning:

1) eliminate all regulations so that corporations can profit at the expense of their workers, 2) eliminate a woman’s right to decide what happens with her own body, and 3)… Um. What was the third one again? Oops.

@ USofRationality
OK, now THAT’S funny. lol

It’s weird that the party they call ‘misogynist’ is the one with more female republican governors…