Texas Governor Rick Perry announced this week that he would not seek re-election but true his Christian beliefs he is finishing strong in his fight for tough abortion laws. A Texas legislative committee approved a measure Thursday that would place broad new restrictions on abortions in the state, paving the way for the contentious legislation to become law.
House Bill 2 cleared the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on a 6-3 vote.
The bill will move to the full Senate floor Friday afternoon in the second attempt to pass the legislation in the Senate. The bill originally failed to pass during the previous special session because of a filibuster from Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis.
Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, joined Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Republican members of the Texas House and Senate on Thursday to voice support for the bill and disdain for Davis and those who would seek to block the legislation.
At a news conference, he blamed the media for lionizing Davis and accused the senator of being out of the American mainstream.
“Look at what she was defending. She was saying that women shouldn’t have sanitary conditions when receiving an abortion, she was defending that children who would otherwise be born alive shouldn’t have the right to be born alive.”
Let us pray for the passage of this law!
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