Column: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the nation's toughest abortion law. Was it principle or posturing? - Yahoo News
In 2014, the Republican attorney general of Texas, Greg Abbott, faced Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis in a gubernatorial contest that drew worldwide attention.
Davis became a mega-celebrity — book contract, magazine covers, speaking tour — after seizing the Senate floor in Austin and filibustering for nearly 15 hours in support of abortion rights. Tens of millions of dollars flooded her campaign.
Still, Abbott clobbered Davis in one of the biggest Texas landslides in years, extending a long record of futility by hapless Democrats. (Their last statewide win came in 1994, back when Amazon was founded and NBC aired the pilot episode of “Friends.”)
Abortion wasn’t the central focus of the race many had expected. Issues like immigration and healthcare and a backlash to the Obama administration were bigger factors in Abbott’s win. At that time, he had yet to sign into law the country’s most stringent antiabortion bill.
More on that in a moment.
In a book published during the campaign, Davis revealed she had terminated two pregnancies, including one due to an extreme fetal abnormality. Abbott restated his long-standing position on abortion, opposing the procedure in all instances, save when the life of a mother was endangered.
Then, less than two weeks before election day, the Los Angeles Times published an article on the governor’s race that included Abbott’s stance on abortion. His campaign immediately asked for a correction, saying Abbott had shifted his view and “now supports a Texas law that allows abortions to take place up to 20 weeks of pregnancy for any reason.”
It’s a small footnote to a long-past campaign. But it’s a curious one, given that Abbott earlier this year signed the bill effectively banning abortion in Texas by outlawing it after about six weeks of pregnancy. That’s before many women even know they’re pregnant.
There are no exceptions for cases involving incest or rape, though Abbott offered his assurance the state would “work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them.”
source: https://news.yahoo.com/column-texas-gov-greg-abbott-130029492.html
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