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TexasTowelie

(112,323 posts) Fri May 17, 2019, 11:39 PM May 2019

House backs abortion bill after heated debate bogs down Legislature

Progress at the Capitol came to an abrupt halt Friday as the Texas House got bogged down in a sometimes heated debate over banning cities and counties from doing business with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers and their affiliates.

As proposed amendments and time-consuming points of order piled up, the tensions spilled over into the Senate, which was voting out House bills in the closing days of the session.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who presides over the Senate, halted voting in the afternoon, saying that if the House was going to spend hours on one bill — putting in jeopardy a long list of Senate bills that must receive House approval by Tuesday — then the Senate would halt action on House bills as well.

“If that’s a game plan, we’ll just stand at ease until they get going,” said Patrick, who eventually sent senators home around 7 p.m.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190517/house-backs-abortion-bill-after-heated-debate-bogs-down-legislature

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House backs abortion bill after heated debate bogs down Legislature (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP

I think each and every person that votes to ban abortion needs to be asked a few questions. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #1

I think that you started a good list. TexasTowelie May 2019 #2

Unfortunately, most of the time the fathers get away scot free. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #3

Don't you just love how the "freedom" loving RW likes putting a sinkingfeeling May 2019 #4

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,868 posts)

1. I think each and every person that votes to ban abortion needs to be asked a few questions.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2019, 12:20 AM

May 2019

1. Have you ever been pregnant?
2. Have you ever been raped?
3. Have you ever been the victim of incest?
4. Have you ever been told that your fetus has a condition that is not compatible with life?
5. Do you support state mandated premeditated murder? You might possibly call this "the death penalty."
6. Do you support free pre-natal health care for pregnant women?
7. Do you support free or inexpensive day care for the children of working mothers?
8. Do you believe men should be held accountable to support the children they father?

I'm sure there are a few other questions, but those are a start at least.

TexasTowelie

(112,323 posts)

2. I think that you started a good list.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Sat May 18, 2019, 12:42 AM

May 2019

I don't understand the push to ban abortion that is occurring. There are a lot of young male Republicans that are going to be on the hook to pay for these babies for another 18 years. One of my acquaintances didn't stop paying for his child until 23.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,868 posts)

3. Unfortunately, most of the time the fathers get away scot free.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Sat May 18, 2019, 01:22 AM

May 2019

Even the sainted Steve Jobs did that. He claimed he was sterile when his girlfriend got pregnant, and it was years before he admitted fatherhood and responsibility. The fucker.

sinkingfeeling

(51,469 posts)

4. Don't you just love how the "freedom" loving RW likes putting a

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2019, 08:14 AM

May 2019

million restrictions on what cities and local governments can do?

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