Perry orders new special session to take up abortion, other issues

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dallasnews:

Gov. Rick Perry is calling lawmakers back immediately for another special session to deal with abortion issues, and also to consider transportation funding and new sentencing guidelines for 17-year-olds convicted of capital crimes.

Unlike the last 30-day special session, Perry is not waiting 16 days before adding abortion to the agenda. It will start immediately.

“Through their duly elected representatives, the citizens of our state have made crystal clear their priorities for our great state,” Perry said in his proclamation.

“Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn. Texans want a transportation system that keeps them moving. Texans want a court system that is fair and just,” he said.

Perry also alluded to the throngs who flooded the Capitol Tuesday night and disrupted the Senate just as it was poised to break the filibuster of Sen. Wendy Davis and push through abortion regulations.

“We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do,” Perry said.

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July 1st. Wasting no time.

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Darn Tea Party!

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Gov. Perry Calls a Special Session for July 1, 2013

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 • Austin, Texas • Proclamation

 

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

 

I, RICK PERRY, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, by the authority vested in me by Article III, Section 5 and Article IV, Section 8 of the Texas Constitution, do hereby call an extraordinary session of the 83rd Legislature, to convene in the City of Austin, commencing at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 1, 2013, for the following purposes:

To consider legislation relating to the regulation of abortion procedures, providers, and facilities.
To consider legislation relating to the funding of transportation infrastructure projects.
To consider legislation relating to establishing a mandatory sentence of life with parole for a capital felony committed by a 17-year-old offender.

The Secretary of State will take notice of this action and will notify the members of the legislature of my action.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto signed my name and have officially caused the Seal of State to be affixed at my Office in the City of Austin, Texas, this the 26th day of June 2013.

RICK PERRY
Governor of Texas

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/proclamation/18705/

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RICK PERRY: Abortion Bill Filibusterer Wendy Davis 'Hasn't Learned From Her Own Example' Of Being A Teenage Mother

Texas Gov. Rick Perry ® said at a pro-life conference Thursday that Wendy Davis, the Democratic state senator who filibustered an abortion bill, "hasn't learned" from her own background of being a teenage mother.

 

"She was the daughter of a single woman. She was a teenage mother herself," Perry said at the National Right to Life convention in Dallas on Thursday.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-perry-wendy-davis-quote-teenage-mother-abortion-bill-filibuster-2013-6#ixzz2XRAf3O00

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Is Texas Ready to be the New Wisconsin?

Michelle Horstman

6/28/13

 

This weeks battle at the Texas Capitol left progressives elated and the Obama administration feeling very empowered. Their Wisconsin-like thug gallery proved successful in postponing the will of the people in Texas. Needless to say, Wendy and Crew energized the base and they are ready to take on the special session called for by Gov. Perry.

 

In this afternoons email, MoveOn.org is encouraging their Texas followers to use another Wisconsin-like tactic to further thwart the will of the people:

 

 

The Texas Constitution requires 100 representativestwo-thirds of the 150-member Houseto conduct business in the lower chamber. There are only 95 Republicans in the House and 19 Republican Senators. Without the participation of Democratic lawmakers, neither chamber of the legislature would have the quorum necessary to do business.

 

A special session can run for as long as 30 days, so there is no chance of a filibuster or parliamentary delay to prevent the passage of a draconian anti-choice bill that would severely limit womens reproductive health options in Texas.

 

This legislation would close 37 of the 42 clinics that offer abortion services in Texas, and outlaw abortion at 20 weeks, even though federal law allows for abortions until 28 weeks. Passage of legislation of this kind will not result in a decrease in the number of abortions but rather will reduce the number of safe options that a woman has by putting the legislature between her and her doctor in regards to her reproductive health and future.

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http://youtu.be/HKzGw3Sa_Lg

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If only Kermit Gosnell had worn pink sneakers like Wendy Davis

DAVID FREDDOSO

JUNE 30, 2013

 

Imagine a parallel universe in which the media coverage of legislators' recent efforts to pass gun control omitted any reference to last year's slaughter of 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

 

To be sure, opinions vary on these laws and their effect. But it would still be absurd if everyone writing about these new proposals chose to ignore the incident that set them off, and instead treated them by default as a completely unprompted assault on Second Amendment rights.

 

Something like this happened last week in Texas. Legislators there offered a bill in response to another terrible tragedy a bill that enjoys support from 62 percent of the state's voters. Wendy Davis, a Democratic state senator, received great praise for filibustering Senate Bill 5, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks and impose on abortion clinics the same health and safety requirements that exist for other ambulatory surgical facilities.

 

As of Friday, the pink sneakers Davis wore on Tuesday night while standing up for late-term abortion were mentioned in more than 90 newspaper articles and 15 television segments, according to the Lexis-Nexis database. Yet a far more relevant detail the reason this law was ever considered received just four mentions in the papers and two on FOX News.

 

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H/T Hot Air