It took two special sessions of the Legislature to do it thanks to the pro-abortion mob who disrupted the vote in the first session. But it finally passed.
“The Texas abortion bill passed both houses of the state legislature [at midnight Friday passing] the House 98-49 and…the Senate 19-11. … The modest bill bans abortions after 20 weeks and elevates standards at abortion clinics to be on par with standards at ambulatory surgical centers.”
President Wormtongue, whose busy golfing and vacationing schedule hardly allows him time to do anything else, managed to tweet his dismay at Democracy that didn’t go his way. Funny, he seemed to like the Muslim Brotherhood’s win.
The pro-abortion crowd, many of them students from Austin universities, mobbed the Capitol Rotunda, but state troopers kept most of them out of the Senate gallery where the final vote went down. Confiscated were jars of feces and urine and unusual amounts of tampons, all apparently to be thrown on the Senate floor. Later, when some refused to leave the gallery, they were arrested.
The anti-abortion crowd was outnumbered, as usual, and some were afraid.
All this to maintain a woman’s right to commit infanticide by aborting a fetus/child who is seven months old, an age at which neonatal units can now save them. The law makes allowance for emergency medical conditions, but seven-month abortions for any other reason are right up there with the Philadelphia abortionist recently convicted of murder.
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” Confiscated were jars of feces and urine and unusual amounts of tampons”, how are they going to finish their Doctoral Thesis without their lab work?
Heh. 😉
I see where abortion rights could be important for students, having been one once. But 7 months is still too late. Students may not understand that, but the grown-ups should.
Mrs. C. says they were mainly concerned about the restrictions on abortion docs, forcing them to have qualified out-patient surgical centers and hospital admission privileges for patients with complications that don’t necessarily require an ambulance. Both of which would probably be hard on rural docs.
Even the urban abortionists tend to be pariahs among the other medicos and hospitals prefer not to have their business because of the controversy. But she admitted the main issue for these folks was that ANY change in the law was a threat. Now the new law will go to the courts, though she expects it will be upheld.