Gov. Rick Perry announced there will be a second special session in an attempt to pass a sweeping Texas style abortion ban. It’s back to the drawing board for the SB5 bill. Evidently Wendy Davis pissed him off, and he will NOT allow a woman to thwart the GOP plan to take away a woman’s […]
Democratic Texas state senator Wendy Davis took over the statehouse floor for a successful marathon filibuster of an abortion-related bill that began Tuesday morning and ended 13 hours later, causing the vote on the bill to miss the deadline. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports. Although her filibuster fell short of the full 13 hours necessary, debate […]
UPDATE: It’s over. Republicans have conceded that the vote was too late. More info Texas senators are trying to determine whether the controversial abortion bill passed. Senator John Whitmire (D-Houston) says that SB-5 was passed at 12:02 a.m. and any claim of its passage would not withstand legal scrutiny. “It’s pretty conclusive that it didn’t […]
Rachel Maddow reports on the pitched battle over abortion rights in Texas as state Republicans push through radical new restrictions that will make health care inaccessible to millions of American woman. Worse still – the GOP defense of the bill exposes an underlying ignorance of science. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news […]
Texas Republicans voted to approve a sweeping abortion measure that will shut down 37 of the state’s 42 abortion clinics. Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Texas State Capitol yesterday to voice their opposition to Senate Bill 5. The bill aims to ban abortion after 20 weeks, force clinic doctors to hold admitting privileges at […]