Extreme Anti-Abortion Legislation Heard in Senate Committee

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[font color=6762CD]Women at Senate HHS Committee dressed in 1950's
garb to show how incredibly backwards it is in 2013
to have to fight for reproductive rights. [/font]

Yesterday, the "Kumbaya session" grew to become an ever-more distant memory as Senators on the Health and Human Services Committee met to debate four pieces of anti-abortion legislation.

These bills, set on the suddenly-packed special session agenda set by Rick Perry, included bills that would ban abortion after 20 weeks, require surgical abortions to be administered in ambulatory surgical centers (closing all but 5 clinics in Texas), make doctors who administer abortion-inducing drugs to do so in person, and an omnibus bill that rolls up all three of the other filed bills, just in case.

These unnecessary measures-- not supported by any major medical group-- are set to prevent access to abortion and force women into unplanned pregnancies all for the sake of the "culture of life" Rick Perry claims Texas to uphold.

Expanding Medicaid for the most-uninsured state in the nation could have been one way to promote a "culture of life," but that would make too much sense. Why increase access to health care when you can make the presence of Texas state government increasingly known in the genitalia of women in our state?

More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13653/extreme-antiabortion-legislation-heard-in-senate-committee .