{"id":6404,"date":"2014-09-06T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/06\/abortion-is-personal-for-wendy-davis\/"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T14:51:05","slug":"abortion-is-personal-for-wendy-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6404","title":{"rendered":"Abortion is personal for Wendy Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wendy Davis has come clean on the issue that to date has defined her campaign for Texas governor.<\/p>\n

The Democratic nominee for governor reveals in a memoir that she terminated a pregnancy. Why? Her unborn child had a potentially fatal brain disease so she and her then-husband made the heart-wrenching decision, during the second trimester of her pregnancy, to end it.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/09\/wendy-davis-ended-pregnancy-110659.html?hp=f2<\/p>\n

Her memoir, “Forgetting to be Afraid,” goes on sale next week.<\/p>\n

It’s fair to wonder: What does this revelation to do her prospects for winning the Texas governorship?<\/p>\n

She won’t win any Republican votes, to be sure. Her GOP opponent, Greg Abbott, already is a strong favorite to win the election in November. Will her acknowledging of this abortion galvanize pro-choice supporters to vote? Will her declaration be a testament to the courage it took for her to say it? I don’t know.<\/p>\n

This kind of intensely personal crisis, though, does put Abbott in a bit of a bind.<\/p>\n

The reasons Davis gives for aborting the pregnancy falls precisely into the circumstance that many anti-abortion activists and lawmakers are willing to exempt from laws that criminalize the act of receiving an abortion.<\/p>\n

Did Davis and her husband seek this recourse with no regard to its consequence? Hardly. She writes that she felt a “deep, dark despair and grief, a heavy wave that crushed me, that made me wonder if I ever would surface.” She writes that she did recover emotionally and emerged someone who was changed forever.<\/p>\n

Is this the kind of thing Abbott and\/or his campaign team wants to exploit? No. I am certain the state’s attorney general will stay away from this issue. His supporters, though, might not be so circumspect.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of intensely personal decision that only a woman can make with those who she loves and with God Almighty — and any effort to demonize Wendy Davis could carry some serious political risk for those who start throwing stones.<\/p>\n

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Wendy Davis has come clean on the issue that to date has defined her campaign for Texas governor. The Democratic nominee for governor reveals in a memoir that she terminated a pregnancy. Why? Her unborn child had a potentially fatal brain disease so she and her then-husband made the heart-wrenching decision, during the second trimester … Continue reading Abortion is personal for Wendy Davis<\/span> →<\/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":[122,2006,3647,5218],"class_list":["post-6404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-greg-abbott","tag-political-memoirs","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404","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=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}