{"id":28,"date":"2013-06-26T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/26\/abortion-bill-talked-to-death-good-deal"},"modified":"2013-06-26T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:13:00","slug":"abortion-bill-talked-to-death-good-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Abortion bill talked to death \u2026 good deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Wendy Davis has become the new poster child for women\u2019s reproductive rights.<\/p>\n<p>I trust the Fort Worth Democratic state senator will wear the label proudly \u2013 as she should.<\/p>\n<p>Davis talked a punitive abortion bill to death overnight, filibustering Texas Senate Bill 5 past the time it could become law.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/26\/led-davis-democrats-defeat-abortion-legislation\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/26\/led-davis-democrats-defeat-abortion-legislation\/\">http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/26\/led-davis-democrats-defeat-abortion-legislation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The special session of the Texas Legislature had been called to repair the state\u2019s congressional and redistricting issue, but was expanded to include abortion restrictions when Gov. Rick Perry added that poison pill to the session\u2019s call.<\/p>\n<p>SB 5 would have made any abortion past the 20th week of pregnancy illegal. Many observers have labeled the bill the toughest in the nation. It would have required doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of an abortion clinic and would have required doctors to administer abortion-inducing drugs.<\/p>\n<p>What makes Davis\u2019s victory so interesting is that she filibustered the bill the old-fashioned way. She stood on the Senate floor and talked for 13 hours. Some Senate Republicans tried to rule her out of order because \u2013 and this is rich \u2013 she was reading a prepared document instead of speaking extemporaneously. This was no procedural filibuster. Davis talked and talked and talked.<\/p>\n<p>The filibuster drew national attention, with the proceedings being broadcast live into homes all across the land. <\/p>\n<p>My applause at the end \u2013 for now \u2013 of Senate Bill 5 is not an endorsement of abortion. It is an endorsement instead of preserving a woman\u2019s right to make this difficult decision rather than criminalizing it.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Davis and her Texas Democratic colleagues have performed a valuable public service.<\/p>\n<p>And if you thought the session in the Texas Senate chamber was raucous, just wait to see what happens if Rick Perry calls yet another special session to try to ram this legislation into law.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Davis has become the new poster child for women\u2019s reproductive rights. I trust the Fort Worth Democratic state senator will wear the label proudly \u2013 as she should. Davis talked a punitive abortion bill to death overnight, filibustering Texas Senate Bill 5 past the time it could become law. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/26\/led-davis-democrats-defeat-abortion-legislation\/ The special session of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abortion bill talked to death \u2026 good deal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}