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Cecile Richards: Great News for Women in Texas
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cecile-richards/great-news-for-women-in-t_b_4039876.htmlToday in Haltom City, at the place where she received her high school diploma, State Senator Wendy Davis announced her candidacy for governor of Texas.
Here's a sentence we don't get to say often enough: This is great news for women in Texas.
This summer, when Governor Rick Perry, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, and Attorney General Greg Abbott tried to force harsh restrictions on abortion through the state legislature, folks turned out by the thousands to speak out in Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Brownsville, and Austin. I've never seen anything like the outpouring of activism we witnessed, especially in Texas. Most of all, the night of the people's filibuster, folks in my home state got a glimpse of something we hadn't experienced in a while: democracy in action.
As we celebrate Wendy's historic announcement, I'm reminded of something that happened the day of the final vote in Austin. On my way into the Capitol that day, I saw a mother and her teenage son in orange T-shirts. When they saw us coming, the mom elbowed her son and said, "Show them your sign."
He held it up. It said "I still have my mom thanks to cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood."
