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I was at the Senate District 17 convention (Fort Bend County).

Just a couple of local candidates were there. They were impressive and sincere.

There were 31 of us and we have 37 slots for the state convention so we elected all 31 of us to go as delegates and our nominations committee will seek people for the other 6 spots plus alterantes.

I served on the resolutions committee. We approved resolutions on issues including voter verified paper trail, protecting reproductive rights of women, following our laws on spying on US citizens, following our laws on treatment of detainees, use of embryonic stem cells for research, some issues involving social security for teachers, increasing teacher pay and others that I can't remember right now!

The meeting took about three hours.

We got into one heated argument during the discussion on reproductive rights. One gentleman wanted language in the resolution against partial birth abortions (late term abortions). I about came unglued. He somehow buys into the Republican party line that women line up for this as an elective procedure and thinks they should all be banned. He doesn't have any clue that this sometimes needs to be done for medical reasons and that it is pretty horrifying for all concerned. I have a best friend who is a labor and delivery nurse and has participated in these for medical reasons and these are not fun and games.

Sometimes I feel so strongly about things that it is very hard for me to respectfully disagree and I should probably work on that. When it comes to my own body and that of my daughter's and when it is a man arguing against me about that, I get a bit worked up.

The resolution passed without adding the exception for partial birth abortions.