My State Senator Needs EVERYONE'S Support as she filibusters ...For women Everywhere

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.ibtimes.com/sen-wendy-davis-filibuster-texas-abortion-bill-defeat-tuesday-deadline-looms-1322053


Live Video as it occurs... until 1201 AM

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130625-live-video-fort-worth-sen.-wendy-davis-begins-abortion-bill-filibuster.ece

If you have any stroke with the upper echelons of The Democratic party, PLEASE send their support Wendy's waY!

[hamsterjill]

1. She has my full support!

Thank goodness for Senators like Wendy Davis!

[The Link]

2. Rec.

[ismnotwasm]

3. K&R

[janlyn]

4. Not in Texas but

I had to send her an email. I wanted her to know how appreciative I am, that she is standing up for womens rights in Texas.

[w8liftinglady]

5. Thank you so much.

Wendy has done so much for education and womens health here.

[Gothmog]

6. Every Democrat in Texas is supporting Wendy Davis

I have received a dozen or so e-mails this morning from groups calling on me to support Senator Davis

[Downwinder]

7. Juantajean says send copy for Wendy.

http://juanitajean.com/2013/06/25/heads-up-will-be-updated-throughout-the-day/

[w8liftinglady]

8. Done...

[ismnotwasm]

10. Done, and thank you

[ismnotwasm]

9. Message to Republicans: Don't Mess With Texas Women on Abortion

Texas Democrats launched a 13-hour filibuster in the state Senate on Tuesday to block a GOP-backed bill that would dramatically limit abortion access in the Lone Star State. The bill bans abortions after 20 weeks gestation, even in cases of rape and incest, and creates strict new building codes for abortion clinics that threaten to shut down nearly all of the state's providers.

The bill passed through the House on Monday despite a 12-hour delay by Democrats and a citizens' filibuster that brought hundreds of protesters to the State Capitol in Austin. "I saw the future of Texas last night, and it is not apathetic," Heather Busby, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, told The Huffington Post. "It is ready for a change."

State Sen. Glenn Hegar (R-Katy) introduced Senate Bill 5 in a special 30-day session that Texas Governor Rick Perry called, in which only a simple majority is needed to send the bill to the floor instead of the usual two-thirds majority. Today is the last day of the session, so filibustering past midnight will kill the legislation, unless Perry decides to call another session. The bill caps abortion access at 20 weeks, even though the 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade allows abortions up until the point that a fetus can live outside the womb (which is usually considered to be 24 weeks gestation). A dozen other states have already passed laws banning abortion after 20 weeks, but the laws have been struck down as unconstitutional in Arizona and Idaho.

The bill also requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. Finally, the bill requires clinics to comply with building codes designed for out-patient surgery centers found in hospitals, a provision that the bill's opponents say would force most of the state's remaining abortion providers to close. Only five of the state's 42 clinics are expected to be able to comply with the new standards—in a state of 26 million people where women already travel an average of 43 miles to get an abortion. Texas clinics have already taken a heavy financial hit in the last two years, as legislators slashed state funds and refused federal Medicaid money in an attempt to shut down Planned Parenthood providers.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/texas-abortion-democrats-filibuster-davis

[ismnotwasm]

11. Kick

[LeftInTX]

12. Thank you!

I just sent Wendy Davis the story of the pregnant woman with triplets who was denied a reduction procedure. She lost at least two of her newborns. They struggled in the NICU for several weeks. She may have lost the third one too.

[ismnotwasm]

13. I send her the story

Of a young women who had a kidney transplant--one of the immunosuppressive medications is a powerful teratogenic, the chances of carrying a healthy fetus to term, not to mention keeping her own health were nil. The young woman, despite a cultural background of anti- abortion sentiment, choose to abort. I held her tight as she cried because her family wasn't there, and helped her on the stretcher. Last time I saw her she was as healthy and happy ad every young woman should have the opportunity to be.

[LeftInTX]

14. Very powerful story - thanks for sending it to her!

[ismnotwasm]

15. You are very welcome

[SunSeeker]

16. Wendy Davis is a true American Hero!!

If she manages to stop this monstrous legislation, she will have saved many women's lives. Either way, she speaks for all Americans and I am so proud of her!

[ismnotwasm]

17. Texans have one hell of a Senator with Wendy Davis

She certainly is an American Hero

[Ilsa]

18. Done and Kick.

[NoPasaran]

19. Wendy kick

[ismnotwasm]

20. Kick

[StopTheNeoCons]

21. Wendy Davis, next female governor of Texas!!!!!!..nt

[rurallib]

22. K & R - She joins my list of heroes

which has a great number of women - Billie jean King, Myrlie Evers, Tammy Baldwin, Shirley Chisholm, Rachel Maddow, the incredible Amy Goodman and many many more.

Go Wendy and my best wishes - If I knew some muckety-muck I'd be pushing them to help you.

[The Straight Story]

23. Maybe I have not been paying attention, but have not seen you in a spell

Nice to see you again

[ismnotwasm]

24. Kick

[derby378]

25. Less than six hours to go...

...and she's still holding her own against Repukes in the Senate. Do it to it, Wendy!

[idwiyo]

26. K&R