Just when I think the looney tunes here in Texas can’t come up with more reprehensible shit, they prove me wrong. Good ole Rick (rhymes with Dick) Perry and his cohorts thought up a bill that would essentially close down more of the medical facilities for women in Texas. They have already closed about half of the places where poor women can get health care.
This bill is an appalling political move to take control of women’s bodies by appealing to extremist anti-abortion voters to get their votes. They say they want to protect women, but, from my perspective of 80 plus years I find that prurient is a good word to describe the Repugnant Republicans who take up space in our pathetic Legislature here in Texas. According to the dictionary prurient is “having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters” (synonyms are lascivious, salacious, lewd, and lecherous), which makes sense, since so many Republican issues basically have to do with control: wanting to stop abortion, to make birth control illegal, and to close clinics and organizations that provide health care for poor women. These MEN bluster and pontificate about how much they care about women, but they are mortally afraid of women (perhaps because of performance anxiety?), and they seem to have a horrid need to control us.
Bringing up a bill that would possibly close almost all of the abortion clinics in Texas because they must be regulated to protect women is plain bullshit – the clinics are already well regulated!
(And requiring abortions to be done at a surgical clinic won’t help women – just Perry’s sister, who will make money on the provision.) How’s that for a snaky Governor! This muddled, fuzzy thinking is very prevalent with Repubs and it really shines in the statement by Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, who pontificated that women who are raped don’t get pregnant because “rape kits allowed women to get cleaned out.” Now, that kind of stupid shit could make any sane person want to puke!
This time by putting the bill at the end of the session the Repubs really stepped in a steaming pile when it opened up the possibility of a filibuster. And into that gaping hole stepped the perfect Democrat to stop the nonsense – Senator Wendy Davis – in her pink running shoes! She stood for eleven hours and drove the Repugs crazy and inspired folks all over the world. They thought she could be stopped, but the orange-wearing women in the gallery took over when one of the Republicans tried to stop her and shouted the weasels down until the clock ran out. Meanwhile, outside in the rotunda hundreds of women, watched over by a portrait of Ann Richards – the only good Governor we’ve had in years, began screaming, shouting, and stomping. I’m sure the disgusting bullies in the Senate got pretty nervous about all those uppity women and probably had visions of torches and pitchforks coming after them.
Wendy Davis was an instant sensation around the world, and 200,000 folks watched the victory for choice online. After rigging the clock about the end of the session didn’t work, ole Rick (rhymes with Dick), Perry called another special session, which will cost us poor Texas taxpayers millions of dollars.
Well, the good news is the perverted, wimpy, and twisted members of the Lege have stirred up a hornet’s nest that will bite them in the ass at election time.
BTW, I was too old to go to Austin, but I got my pink Wave Riders and I STAND WITH WENDY!
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Thank you, I’ll enjoy reading this. And I’ve just done my first piece of creative writing in over ten years, so I’ll attach it for you. Lots of love, Pat.