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Only 2 1/2 hours left in Senator Wendy Davis' filibuster of Texas restrictive abortion bill. She's been on her feet for over 10 hours and is not allowed to lean. The bill is dead if she lasts until midnight Central. Perry could still over-ride.
a one-woman filibuster to block a GOP-led effort that would impose stringent new abortion restrictions across the nation's second-most populous state.
Sen. Wendy Davis, 50, of Fort Worth began the filibuster at 11:18 a.m. CDT Tuesday and passed the nine-hour mark in her countdown to midnight -- the deadline for the end of the 30-day special session.
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If signed into law, the measures would close almost every abortion clinic in Texas
Hope she makes it, over an hour to go. What issue does this bill actually resolve?
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the state House of Representatives passed a bill that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in Texas, severely limits access to medication-induced abortions and regulates first-trimester abortion clinics as ambulatory surgical centers. State Sen. Wendy Davis (D) is hoping to delay final passage of the bill by speaking continuously on the Senate floor until the Texas legislature's special session ends at midnight on Tuesday. She is not allowed to go to the bathroom or lean on anything in the meantime.
"I have to ask the question," Davis said during her filibuster on Tuesday, "What purpose does this bill serve? And could it be, might it just be a desire to limit women's access to safe, healthy, legal, constitutionally-protected abortions in the state of Texas?"
Why do you care what other people do? Or, more importantly, why do you think you should be able to tell them that they can't do something that doesn't affect you?
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Wendy Davis saving Texas from itself
