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Originally Posted by dyna mo
she's awesome because she filibustered against texas legislation that
banned abortions past twenty weeks of gestation, required doctors performing the procedure to have the right to be able to practice in nearby hospitals, and required that clinics meet the same standards as other health-care facilities in the state
that's awesome to canadians?
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It would shut down 80 percent of abortion clinics in Texas. There would be nowhere at all to have a legal abortion in West Texas. The sponsor of the bill has stated that rape or incest victims should not be excluded from this legislation (see above clip on her stunning rape kit related reasoning for that). The bill would leave something like five abortion clinics open in the whole of Texas. The twenty weeks is a red herring in what is really an attempt to, in practical terms, ban abortion altogether in Texas.