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Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:08 PM Jan 2015

Hypocrites at Texas Medical Association Still Giving Hundreds of Thousands to Anti-Choice Candidates

During the last legislative session, one of the most outspoken opponents of SB 5 (the anti-abortion bill filibustered by Wendy Davis that was eventually passed as HB 2) was the Texas Medical Association. They calledthe bill a “legislative intrusion into the patient-physician relationship” that “sets a dangerous precedent of the legislature prescribing the details of the practice of medicine.” Their supposedly nonpartisan opinion was cited frequently as proof that the bill was medically unsound.

However, as we reported last year, the Texas Medical Association was one of the main reasons the legislators who sponsored SB 5 were in office. TMA endorsed 4 of the House authors of HB 2, and two of the Senate authors and sponsors of the bill.

One would think that after supposedly violating TMA’s principles so egregiously, the organization would cease to support these elected officials. That didn’t happen–instead TMA gave the authors and sponsors of HB 2 even more money this election.

Last year, TMA gave tens of thousands of dollars to candidates who were directly tied to HB 2, either as authors or sponsors. The table below shows the HB 2 candidates who received donations from TMA, as well as how much they received for the general election. (Taken from publicly available data at the Texas Ethics Commission:

The list of candidates and the rest of the article is at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/29404/hypocrites-texas-medical-association-still-giving-hundreds-thousands-anti-choice-candidates .

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