The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Dec. 11, 2012

by David Muto
December 11, 2012
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• Perry Lends Support to Fetal Pain Bill: "Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday indicated he would support a 'fetal pain' bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks. Speaking at the Source for Women, a pregnancy crisis center in Houston, he said his goal 'is to make abortion at any stage a thing of the past.' … While the governor was giving his remarks on Tuesday, Planned Parenthood sent out a press release announcing another lawsuit against the state over the organization's exclusion from the new state-run Women's Health Program."

• Head of CPRIT Resigns Amid Investigations ...

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Comments (11)

December 11, 2012 @ 5:37 p.m.

Steve Munday via Texas Tribune on Facebook

And neither can Ms. Busby!
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December 11, 2012 @ 5:40 p.m.

Toby Marie Walker via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I agree with her, but they can set guidelines.... Obamacare does it, and I bet she's not complaining about that.
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December 11, 2012 @ 5:43 p.m.

Mynor Eddie Rodriguez via Texas Tribune on Facebook

SM: I don't believe Ms. Busby is directing anybody. I think the goal is to have as many choices available to the mother and the family. Once you start to take away other people choices based on your religious belief, the state becomes the religious institution. No real American wants a theocracy.
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December 11, 2012 @ 5:46 p.m.

Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Perry & the Texas Republicans need to stop their war on women! Women will remember and women will vote them out of office.
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December 11, 2012 @ 5:50 p.m.

Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Toby, health guidelines under Obamacare were written by doctors, not politicans. Politicians have no business making laws that are meant only to restrict what medical decisions a woman may or may not make.
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December 11, 2012 @ 5:57 p.m.

C.g. David via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Perry has never been voted out of office. Prove me wrong women of Texas,please!
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December 11, 2012 @ 6:30 p.m.

Steve Munday via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I am not a Republican. But, I am real tired of hearing that the Republicans have a war on women. That is not logical but reeks of the hysterical...gosh, that almost rhymes with hysterectomy. War? Why? What would they accomplish by somehow attacking women? If it is voting, they are not stupid. All in all, sophomoric and self-demeaning.
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December 11, 2012 @ 6:54 p.m.

Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Why are the GOP shoving their politics up womens' vaginas??
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December 11, 2012 @ 9:48 p.m.

Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Forget religion. Go with science. Somebody needs to speak for the baby...some of them future females. There is no republican war on women.
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December 11, 2012 @ 9:50 p.m.

Steve Munday via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Why, Mr. Moyer, you are the clever one with phallic metaphors. Bet you can answer your own question.
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December 13, 2012 @ 6:51 p.m.

Samdavis

Lori, people like you and your best friend Rick Perry sure don't speak for children. When you cancel women's health programs, cut pre-natal and post-natal care that doesn't help anyone. You're from that crowd that feels, "I've got mine, screw everyone else."