Texas state senator Wendy Davis, who was catapulted onto the national political stage after a marathon filibuster of an abortion bill, tells “Morning Joe” it’s a sad state of affairs when politicians “intrude on women’s personal decision-making for their own higher aspirations.” Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
You might recall the efforts by Texas Republicans to falsify the vote count on the controversial abortion bill earlier this week. Of particular note are the following two screenshots taken from the Texas Legislature Online site. At 12:54 a.m. Wednesday morning the site showed SB-5 as having been passed on “6-26-13″ or after the legislative […]
As Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday called for a second special session on abortion restrictions, the drama of Tuesday night’s explosive fight in the Texas Senate continued to reverberate. For all you who were not able to watch the events unfold in the Senate chambers during State Sen. Wendy Davis’ filibuster on the omnibus abortion […]
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 […]
Senator Davis took to the floor the Texas Senate at 11:18 a.m. in pink tennis shoes to begin what she hoped would be a nearly 13 hour filibuster of the bill. As the day went on, Davis’ filibuster caught fire on Twitter, and by the evening it was trending worldwide. The excitement peaked at 11:58 […]