Meet Some Smiling Murderers

[cali]

Governor Perry, Lt. Gov. Dewhurst and every single vile republican legislator in the woman hating Texas legislature. Some of the restrictions in this legislation will almost certainly be blocked. Other parts won't be. Women will seek unsafe means to abort. No one will ever openly call them murderers in the MSM, but that's what they will be.

Women will die.

The proximate cause will be the men and women who so avidly pushed for and passed this legislation. Not one life will be saved. And children will be born who these legislators despise and cut services for.


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House Bill 2 would require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, allow abortions only in surgical centers, limit where and when women may take abortion-inducing pills and ban abortions after 20 weeks.

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Abortion-rights supporters say the bill will close all but five abortion clinics in Texas, leaving large areas of the vast state without abortion services. Only five out of 42 existing abortion clinics meet the requirements to

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/texas-senate-passes-sweeping-abortion-restrictions-article-1.1397843#ixzz2Z176rQix

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Another provision will force doctors to administer the abortion-inducing drug RU486 in person instead of giving women the ability to take the second dose on their own. The provision, coupled with a previous law that forces women to have a sonogram before an abortion, means a woman in Texas would now have to see her physician on four separate occasions if she wishes to use the abortion drug.

An attempt to amend the legislation so that it did not apply to victims of rape and incest was defeated.

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http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/355797a8-ebd6-11e2-bfdb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Z17ORo2R

[great white snark]

1. See, no need for majorities since both parties are the same.

Just in case:

What's sad (well one of many sad things) is that if all this gets through in Texas it still won't be as bad as the draconian, crippling to women's rights legislation passed in Oklahoma.

The Koch bros did and vow to again dump millions into state level elections. This has to be countered.

Thanks for your post.

[cali]

2. That really is irrelevant re Texas

And all of it has been passed. What will be challenged (it won't be every provision) and what will be successfully challenged are another story.

By the way, the more draconian laws are by far the easiest to challenge. Not only that, but Oklahoma's new abortion restriction laws went into effect on May 1 of this year. Here they are:

A woman must receive state-directed counseling that includes information designed to discourage her from having an abortion and then wait 24 hours before the procedure is provided.
Abortion is covered in private insurance policies only in cases of life endangerment, unless an optional rider is purchased at an additional cost.
Health plans that will be offered in the state’s health exchange that will be established under the federal health care reform law can only cover abortion in cases when the woman's life is endangered, unless an optional rider is purchased at an additional cost.
Abortion is covered in insurance policies for public employees only in cases of life endangerment, unless an optional rider is purchased at an additional cost.
The use of telemedicine for the performance of medication abortion is prohibited.
The parent of a minor must consent and be notified before an abortion is provided.
Public funding is available for abortion only in cases of life endangerment, rape or incest.
An abortion may be performed at or after 20 weeks postfertilization (22 weeks after the woman’s last menstrual period) only if the woman’s life is endangered or if her physical health is severely compromised, based on the spurious assertion that a fetus can feel pain at that point.


Democrats have a vanishingly small chance of achieving majorities in Texas, Oklahoma and certain other states. Doesn't mean they should run, but that's the reality.