Stubbornness Could Hold Up Abortion Sonogram
The biggest hurdle getting an abortion sonogram bill passed this session may be good old-fashioned stubbornness.
House Republicans have no interest in taking up the Senate version, which they say is too lax for their liking. Indeed, an amendment on the House floor that would’ve replaced that chamber’s sonogram bill with the Senate’s language went down in flames last week.
But the House version could have trouble making its way through the Senate, where abortion sonogram legislation only passed because of a careful balance struck between the bill’s author, Republican state Sen. Dan Patrick, and Democratic ...
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Susan Stella Floyd via Texas Tribune on Facebook
They haven't seen stubborn until I end up on the receiving end of the trans-vaginal probe. Then they'll see stubborn. And enraged.
Susan Stella Floyd via Texas Tribune on Facebook
“This is not a bill to play politics with," says Senator Patrick. But women's lives? Fair game!
Chris Thornton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What about innocent unborn babies lives?
Susan Stella Floyd via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If you're trying to bait me into saying that women's lives are more important than "innocent unborn babies" you can just ask. That is in fact EXACTLY my position. A woman's life is always - ALWAYS - more important than that of a fetus, and its existence is solely at her discretion. Also, Chris, do you support increased funding for pre- and ante-natal medical care for mother and baby? Access to affordable health care in general? Access to affordable contraception and reproductive education? Programs that support the life, health, and education of all children regardless of their parents' financial means, social standing, race, or religion? Do you support an end to the death penalty and to the millions of legal killings undertaken by American servicemen and women in your name, to secure our global economic hegemony? Until you do, you are a hypocrite at best, and I don't give a shit about your oh-so-delicate feelings about "innocent unborn babies." Fuck you .
Michael Cosper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Chris doesn't understand that all innocence ends at inception. All humans are concieved in sin!
Erin 'Keck' Inks via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"Innocent unborn babies" don't exist until they are viable to survive apart from a woman's body -- at which point it's too late for an abortion anyway, except in extreme cases. Until then, it's part of the woman's body and a legal right for her to choose what she wants to do.
Aldo Merino via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ah yes, "a good sonogram bill", as if such a thing existed. Here's to hoping Republican egos let the bill die in the legislative chamber.
And don't mind Chris, Susan. He just drops in random topics, trolls with a one liner or two, and then bails, never caring to actually engage in an actual discussion. The avatar says it all.
Chase Vines via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The epitome of stupidity. Let's attempt to protect an unborn fetus with a sonogram bill, but destroy the lives of existing children by cutting education and health care funding.
Paul Theobald via Texas Tribune on Facebook
why? why is this an emergency? why is this bill written by men? why are "conservatives" pushing a government mandate on an extremely personal choice by a woman? how could this possibly pass the House without even exemptions for rape and incest? Is no one willing to admit that the sole reason for this bill lies in religious ideology, and not on science or practicality? why is it assumed that women are confused, uninformed little lambs in need of the beneficent leg to make a terribly important decision for them. This shit is so backwards and oppressive, i feel like next we will pass a bill allowing for parents to decide who their daughter marries, or requiring that you be able to pass a reading test to vote.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Exactly who(m) will pay for these extra Sonograms??? I vote Rep.Sid Miller.And Chase,you said it! Haven't we settled this via Supreme Court? Does that Sid Miller have a uterus??? When you do,Rep.Miller,then you can offer a stupid opinion. Or when you have a uterus?
Nancy Haggard via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yes and don't forget our elderly and disabled they're willing to throw under the bus with the Medicaid cuts!! Medicaid actually gets federal monies to help fund the program!!! Cutting off their nose to spare their faces??
Mary Green via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well said @ Susan!
Laura S. Hoke via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So proud to know Susan right about now ;) You tell 'em, Stella!
Jackie Silberman Nirenberg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can you imagine the Texas legislature requiring doctors to hold a mirror up to a man's privates so he can see what he's about to terminate before his vasectomy?