austin texas
asked one of that most strict abortion bills in the country it would be at
abortion after twenty weeks and it would require all abortion clinics you get
it may be privileges from hospitals
and as you know it's very difficult for clinics to do that because of the fact
that a lot of hospitals
don't want to get
protested and they also have their own religious issues and they don't want to
do with abortion at all now at the bill passed the house
and it made its way to the senate and senate democrats in texas said that they
were not going to let it pass
in fact as the center wendy davis at if she was willing to do a thirteen outward
filibuster
just to make sure that she could block though vote now we have an a_b_c_ news
report that has more details of the story let's take a look members i'm
rising on the floor today
to humbly giveaways
to thousands of texans with no food no water and no bathroom breaks allowed
davis hope to run out the clock in the legislative session and so block a bill
that would close virtually every abortion clinic in texas but to engineer
the filibuster she also couldn't change the subject and her republican opponent
says she didn't just that just before the midnight deadline
igniting chaos as hundreds of her supporters protested
selling her name
not make a stand scrambled to vote in time approving the bill
but then this morning astonish the lieutenant governor confirming that the
timing of that vote was changed in the computer the vote was actually taken
after midnight
now i
filibuster took place for eleven hours which is incredible and throughout those
eleven hours as you heard in that report no bathroom breaks no food she wasn't
allowed to leave on anything
and with the waiter filibuster works in texas is there's a three-strikes policy
so if you do something that's out of that
hours at people or or your colleagues can call something known as a point of
order
and uh... on a-one occasion did they call the point of order because she was
talking about
ultrasounds and the bill has absolutely nothing to do with ultrasound so they
said nineteen us at that point of order
she also that another point of order
wed a colleague of hers came to help her with her back race because our back was
really bothering her she was standing there for a note for eleven am crassly
absolute and managed to call off the filibuster and there was about twelve
minutes left
and this is where the protesters came in and it was incredible because
republicans are scrambling in there trying a boat and the possibility so
they're getting distracted by the protesters that are there
act the edible all of this they would be managed to finish voting
but the finish voting at twelve oh three and which meant that they did not meet
the deadline
yeah sorry sorry
and you know it's when he should have done and as the man who use it working
retail and stand on my feet on an italian marble floor all day she should
have treated before the filibuster hehe
what ideas do you have to be able to stand in service jobs all day and she
would have gotten it shifts would've made aren't exo skeleton unsure at that
point but the backbase booking ten issues and she did what she could icm
she was wearing some sort of a stadium heller depends or something
and um... i'd just write had one of the here when i grow up so that i love her i
think she's on unbelievable unbelievable and very inspirational and also it shows
me that there's hope to be deeply conservative state like texas you have
in one hand and on
who is fighting for something and by the way because of redistricting and because
of the um...
discipline cordon guiding the voters reporter writes act of nineteen sixty
five uh... it's very unlikely that in texas people redistrict her area dole
split it up and it it will be even more difficult for her to get reelected so
i'm really worried about that but for today let's focus on the good yeah
exactly gap obstacle i'll object this is an example of democracy working in the
right way and i'm wondering optimistic however governor rick perry is some
obsessed with the issue of abortion because there's nothing else to
governing on right you gotta worry about abortion yeah he has decided to call a
special session which will take place on july first at two p_m_ so
they're still fighting they're trying to get this um... legislation passed we're
trying to make this law
and
who knows what will happen during that special session but i'll ideal feel
better knowing that we have state senator like wendy davis fight absolutes
rain absolutely file a final how quote from wendy davis and i like she said my
back hurts i don't have a lot of ways left it shows the determination and
spirit a texas women
jaco men
and left him a feels really good to know that there's someone fighting for
women's rights
in texas