The Brief: Top Texas News for March 4, 2011
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A slew of amendments — some serious, some not so much — from Democrats couldn't keep the Texas House from tentatively approving one of the strictest abortion laws in the country Thursday night.
Debate over state Rep. Sid Miller's House Bill 15 — which would require doctors to perform a sonogram on women seeking abortions at least 24 hours before the procedure, making no exceptions for victims of rape or incest — stretched on for seven hours, past 9 p.m. The chamber cleared the bill by a preliminary vote of 103-42, with seven Democrats voting in favor and ...
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Cindee Sharp via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I like the way Marquez thinks!
Gregory S Windham via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I agree. I think that is seriously a good idea. Also, child molesters should be neutered, publicly; we should have a survivor tournament for death row prisoners promoted by Don King with the winner being freed somewhere in New York City.
Carolyn Moon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's a jobs bill. We can put a State Employee in every doctor's office.
Rosey Ramos Abuabara via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hell ya!!
Dr.:" who got you preg?" oh yes, we have that Bastards DNA on file, this is his 4th time, CALL HIM IN FOR A VASECTOMY!!! asap!"
Chris Thornton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A man having an operation to make himself sterile is hardly a comparison to a woman that intentionally murders her unborn baby. It takes two to tango. Don't want kids? Don't have sex. Or at least have common sense enough to use birth control. The Depo-Provera shot works very well. One shot every 3 months.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
According to the Pope, having sex without procreation is just as immoral, isn't it? (I'm genuinely asking since I hardly consider myself learned in the ways of rigorous Catholicism.)
I bring up religion because clearly that supplies the moral core for the abortion debate.
Anne Solomon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What if, instead of spending all this time and money on something that is clearly based on discrimination, the state demanded testing and prosecution of the thousands of rape kits that sit untested in Texas? Those are crimes that have already been committed. Sonograms are meant to torture women for something that isn't even against the law---it tortures them for being born female.
Dave Cortez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Rape? Incest? What to do then Chris? Her fault? Grow up.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Err, my question was posed to Chris, who said that vasectomies are morally unrelated.
Anne Solomon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Neutering rapists and molesters doesn't work. It just makes them use an alternative instrument of torture instead of the one they are born with.
Sonora Hartley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just a man and his hand and some toilet paper - not pointing a finger you understand. Just saying...
Catherine Hardy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wow, it seems this Rep. didn't read the bill she just voted on. This bill does not "force" women to do anything. It merely requires the physician to offer women the CHOICE as to whether or not to have a pre-abortion sonogram. Choice, choice, choice.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Look, that just may be one of the crazy- true things ElPaso produces.
Rosey Ramos Abuabara via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Chris Thornton, are you male?? Do you know much about Depro provera? Has lots of bad side effects. I know many women who cannot take this shot.
You do sound like a ignorant confederate male.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Catherine, the bill allows them the choice but doesn't force doctors to inform them of that choice. People being arrested have their Miranda Rights but police officers are still required to tell them about those rights.