Abortion bill battle comes to near blows on House floor

[Judi Lynn]

Abortion bill battle comes to near blows on House floor
By Brian M. Rosenthal | May 24, 2015 | Updated: May 25, 2015 12:35am

AUSTIN -- Two Texas Republican lawmakers nearly got into a fist fight on the state House floor late Sunday night after a priority of anti-abortion activists surprisingly failed to make it onto the calendar ahead of a key deadline.

Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, got in the face of Rep. Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, at around 9:30 p.m., shortly after Senate Bill 575 died in the last pre-deadline Calendars Committee meeting on a 7-7 vote.

Three Republicans -- Reps. Sarah Davis, Debbie Riddle and Patricia Harless -- joined with minority Democrats to oppose the bill, which would ban health insurance plans in the state from covering abortion.

"You gave me your word!" Stickland yelled at Cook during a brief confrontation that was broken up by security officers.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Abortion-bill-battle-comes-to-near-blows-on-House-6284677.php?cmpid=rrhoustontx

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. The former fetus is a current dick. n/t

[47of74]

2. Please let there be video of this somewhere.

[jmowreader]

3. Anyone with a "don't steal, the government hates competition" sign...

on his desk, when HE IS PART OF THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT, needs to be impeached.

[47of74]

4. Yeah, I'd call him a real fuckwit.

However that's insulting to fuckwits.