Thursday, June 27, 2013

The Battle of Lt. Gov Dewlap


The latest in the continuing fight for the humanity of women, sometimes known as Gov. Ricky Bobby Perry's War on Women, is explained quite nicely in Gail Collin;s column today. If you missed any of the excitement, she can bring you up to date.
There is an old saying that Texas is “heaven for men and dogs, but hell for women and oxen.” But the state’s history is chock-full of stories of female role models. Barbara Jordan. Ann Richards. In downtown Austin, there’s a statue of Angelina Eberly, heroine of the Texas Archives War of 1842, firing a cannon and looking about 7 feet tall.

I do not have nearly enough time to explain to you about the Archives War, although it’s an extremely interesting story. Right now we need to move on to State Senator Wendy Davis, whose 11-hour filibuster this week turned her into a national name brand.

“It was like a made-for-TV movie. I’ve been around the block, but I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood and the daughter of the former governor.

Texas is a state with one of the nation’s highest teenage motherhood rates, where a majority of women who give birth are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. So, naturally, its political leaders have declared war against the right of women to choose whether or not they want to be pregnant. Funding for family planning has been slashed. This month, Gov. Rick Perry tried to pass a new law that would have shut down almost all the abortion clinics in the state, under the guise of expanded health and safety requirements.
What follows is the story of a brave woman and a bunch of cowardly Teabaggers.

// posted by montag @ 1:24 PM
Comments:
On the upside in about eighteen years all of those un-aborted babies that gubner Perry will save will be of voting age and vote the Texas republican party into oblivion.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 10:52 PM
 
Dewhurst should count his blessings, Davis could have put a cannonball across his bRow instead of a fillibuster! Nice to see the womanly custom of telling male lawmakers to stop being gutless dicks being reignited in Texas
# posted by Anonymous syrbal/Labrys : 12:07 PM
 

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