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Women wary as Taliban creeps back into political life
Texas legislators overturned a temporary victory by state Democrats and standard bearer Sen. Wendy Davis, passing a bill late Friday that puts new restrictions on abortion procedures.
The bill passed the Republican-controlled Senate just before midnight, two weeks after the Legislature failed to put the restrictions to a successful vote in its first special session. The bill would ban most abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy, place new requirements on which facilities could perform the procedures and limit a woman’s ability to induce an abortion by taking a pill.
Abortion rights advocates, including Planned Parenthood of Texas, have said that the new law would effectively shut down all but six of the facilities where abortions are performed in the state.
Pro- and anti-abortion activists flooded the Texas Capitol on Friday afternoon, setting the stage for a dramatic ideological showdown. Abortion rights advocates wearing orange were holding gynecological devices and signs, while anti-abortion advocates dressed in blue carried images of fetuses and Bible verses, according to The Associated Press.
Twenty-one amendments were offered, debated and rejected. As debate progressed, reporters inside the chamber said protesters could be heard chanting outside, and some protesters who were in the gallery were removed after outbursts.
As the time ticked toward midnight, senators offered passionate arguments on either side.
Gov. Rick Perry had made passing House Bill 2 a priority and said he will sign it into law.
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hey that's no fair! you can't be using no logic or nothin when you be talking texas!
one of these assholes actually bragged about the required upgrades to become surgical centers that will close 37 out of 42 clinics saying "how can you be against better health care for women?" this is the same legislature that has refused to expand medical care for the poor even with federal funds and in a state with 30 per cent uninsured....they have absolutely NO shame in their hypocrisy
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