62 in House push Perry on abortion

[TexasTowelie]

Saying they were “not willing to give up the fight,” 62 Texas House Republicans have asked Gov. Rick Perry to push for four abortion-related bills if he calls the Legislature into special session.

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• A ban on abortions after 20 weeks gestation based on medical studies, which are disputed by abortion advocates, indicating that a fetus can begin feeling pain at 20 weeks. Only 1.3 percent of abortions are performed after the proposed deadline.

• A requirement that abortion facilities be licensed as ambulatory surgical centers. Opponents said the bill was a poorly disguised attempt to close clinics, most of which offer only drug-induced abortions, by requiring them to make expensive upgrades. Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, countered that his bill was intended to better protect women’s health.

• A rule requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of an abortion facility.

• A ban ensuring that a health insurance exchange, an Affordable Care Act program to match people with private insurance, does not include abortion coverage.

The complete story at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/62-in-house-push-perry-on-abortion/nX39s/ .

[ZRT2209]

1. American Taliban

[Vogon_Glory]

2. So-Called Small Government Conservatives

It is truly appalling how many low-information right-wing voters out there think that the Republican Party really does stand for individual responsibility and small government. There was a time, and a lot of us older posters remember it, when the Republican Party really did respect personal choice and the right of a woman to determine her own fertility or whether or not to have an abortion.

In Texas, those days are gone, gone, gone, and have been for decades. Sure, there are still a few pro-choice people who vote Republican, but the Republicans they vote for are rabidly anti-abortion, equally determined to gut access to women's health clinics for poorer Texans, and would join the Tali-born-agains' jihad against birth control at the drop of a dime. Jeff Wentworth was the last Republican politician of note who was even moderately pro-choice and he got replaced by fervently anti-abortion Tea Party-sympathizing right-winger Donna Campbell.

Want to improve women's health, Doc Duell? Pass a bill requiring crisis pregnancy clinics to have full-time doctors and registered nurses on site to give accurate, truthful medical advice!

[mbperrin]

3. Yep, a government small enough to fit inside a uterus.

Mental illness.