Texas state senator says women who support limit on late-term abortion ‘don’t really understand’ the issue.
John McCormack
The Weekly Standard
8/5/2013
Texas state senator Wendy Davis spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon about her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting late-term abortion, her life story, and her future in politics.
Davis has become a champion for pro-choice activists, but during her recent whirlwind national media tour, she never commented on late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of murder in May for killing infants moments after they were born.
Following her Press Club speech on Monday, THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked Davis to explain the difference between the late-term abortions that the Texas state senator wants to keep legal and the illegal Gosnell killings.
Davis didn’t answer the question. “I don’t know what happened in the Gosnell case,” she told me…
…Polls have consistently shown that solid majorities of Americans, including women, support banning most abortions that occur later than 20 weeks after conception.
Asked what she thinks of polls showing women support limiting abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Davis told me that people “don’t really understand” the issue…
Read the entire article at The Weekly Standard.
H/T The Gateway Pundit where readers may watch the infamous video of abortion supporters in Texas chanting, “Hail, Satan.”
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“We’ll have to find out whether Hillary is planning to run for president first…”
