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Texas GOP Official Begs Party to Stop Focusing on AbortionA precinct chair in the Houston GOP is calling on her party to drop its anti-abortion platforms, warning that the states draconian restrictions to the medical procedure are alienating its base.
Speaking at the Texas Republican convention, Harris County Precinct 178 chair Gilda Bayegan claimed that she was shocked to learn how many of her constituents were no longer Republicans.
I asked them, What matters to you? Its the things that all these people have been telling you to focus on, Bayegan said, motioning to the people around the room while rolling through a list of issues, ranging from judicial accountability to border security. Nobody told me that they wanted stricter abortion laws.
Every time we talk about abortion we are putting gas in the tank of the Democrats, Bayegan continued. Im up here begging you not to make it one of our priorities.
Texas has some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation, banning all use of the medical procedure except in the event of a severe medical emergencythough even that exception isnt a given. Last year, Dallas mother Kate Cox became the first woman to challenge the states post-Roe emergency clause after learning that her fetus had a fatal genetic condition that would have jeopardized Coxs health and future fertility if carried to term. But although Cox qualified for the procedure under Texas law, a district judges ruling allowing her to receive an abortion was effectively overridden by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who not only called for the Supreme Court to intervene in the case but also promised to convict abortion providers with felony charges, even if the procedure was court-ordered.
Speaking at the Texas Republican convention, Harris County Precinct 178 chair Gilda Bayegan claimed that she was shocked to learn how many of her constituents were no longer Republicans.
I asked them, What matters to you? Its the things that all these people have been telling you to focus on, Bayegan said, motioning to the people around the room while rolling through a list of issues, ranging from judicial accountability to border security. Nobody told me that they wanted stricter abortion laws.
Every time we talk about abortion we are putting gas in the tank of the Democrats, Bayegan continued. Im up here begging you not to make it one of our priorities.
Texas has some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation, banning all use of the medical procedure except in the event of a severe medical emergencythough even that exception isnt a given. Last year, Dallas mother Kate Cox became the first woman to challenge the states post-Roe emergency clause after learning that her fetus had a fatal genetic condition that would have jeopardized Coxs health and future fertility if carried to term. But although Cox qualified for the procedure under Texas law, a district judges ruling allowing her to receive an abortion was effectively overridden by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who not only called for the Supreme Court to intervene in the case but also promised to convict abortion providers with felony charges, even if the procedure was court-ordered.
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Texas GOP Official Begs Party to Stop Focusing on Abortion (Original Post)
In It to Win It
May 25
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LiberalFighter
(52,197 posts)1. Too late
ProudMNDemocrat
(17,293 posts)2. So sorry Harris County GOP precinct 178...
That Genie has been out of the bottle for years now and it ain't going back in without a fight.
hatrack
(59,704 posts)3. Well, good luck, Tex . . . .
BTW, are you, as a woman, doing in the GOPeePee?
Just wondering.
tanyev
(42,980 posts)4. Don't you worry your pretty little head over it, honey.
Now heres a couple men to help you sort out that problem you think is so complicated.
patphil
(6,384 posts)5. Kinda hard not to make it a priority when the Republicans have been passing anti-abortion laws all over the country.
These laws have already caused a lot of fear, pain and suffering, and even death.
Unfortunately for the Republicans, that train left the station quite a while ago. You can't undo it now, or pretend it isn't what it is.
The women of this country already have it as a priority; to vote Republicans who support this shit out of office.
ZonkerHarris
(24,484 posts)6. The GOP whistling through the graveyard