Today is the cutoff for the Texas legislature’s special session. It’s also the final day of the session to pass a bill, which was jammed through by the Texas senate’s large conservative majority, to severely restrict abortion rights. The bill would restrict all abortions after 20 weeks and place burdens that would effectively shut down most abortion clinics in the state. The senate will pass the by midnight. That is, unless Senator Wendy Davis can stop them with a nonstop, 13-hour filibuster.
On live stream, here she goes:
The Texas Tribune has a live blog.
GO, WENDY, GO!
Because five months is just not enough time to figure out whether or not to have an abortion.
Women should all have five months of access to state-enforced rape wands. If there are complications after that, the state simply provides them the opportunity to carry a dead fetus up to four months until stillbirth.
Figures a woman would be good at talking about nothing for twelve hours straight…