***** Stand with Texas Women - SB1 Hearing = LiveBLOG *****
This thread is intended to be a collective LiveBlog of events today in Austin.
If you support Texas Women please join in and contribute.
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#StandWithTXWomen #SWTW #StandWithWendy #TXlege #SB1 #FeministArmy #NaralTX
10:00 Hearing
NOW LIVE: Senate RealMedia Live Broadcasts
http://www.senate.state.tx.us/streamav/ext/ch7.ram
YouTube Channel here:
Texas Senate Livestream 83(2)
The media is working the line
If you have ??? or need anything, look for people wearing these. We are walking around.
A few of the people in part of the line
Both sides of the issue are in the Capital today
VIDEO: "Stand With Texas Women" Rally Highlights - Planned Parenthood Action
The witness line at 8:00 AM
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The Unruly Mob
House Calendar Comm tally sheet. 1 dem present, 6 missing. Passed in under 60 sec. ... pic.twitter.com/A3x8Tcx8ZI
Australian T-V. The world is watching.
Took an hour to get to register. Overflow rms NOT based on grouping. Testimony is based on group no.
Lee Henderson ?
Auditorium is open, E1: plenty of seats available. Live feed, big screen.
overflow rooms open now in Capitol Extension
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Texas Senate Health and Human Services Hearing
Public · By Stand with Texas Women
https://www.facebook.com/events/484356354983149/
Going 1,624 so far!
Jessica W. Luther
You have to fill out a PAPER card, not sign up electronically like you may have done at the House hearing last week. #LetUsSpeak
R.Saddler
Anti-Choicers Uphold #Texas Values by Importing Non-Texans to Monday Rally at Texas Capitol
Katherine ?@KathTX
This makes my day! RT @ajeanstevenson "@KathTX People in line are getting registered to vote and I'm thanking you. #SWTW"
findingtheramp
It's 7:30. Line to register testimony stretches DOWN THE STAIRS. Sargent-at-arms doesn't understand that some of us don't do stairs. #swtw
Line into North Entrance
Sen. Nelson is cutting off the line to testify at 11am. Everyone in line at that time will be heard.
The TX Tea Party decries big spending unless it promotes their fascist causes. Sign says it all!
Devon Howard ?@DFHoward 1h
March tonight! 8PM! Come early, stay late, wear orange!
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The Lone Star State is changing – and with its size and diversity, our state should be a place where all elections – from local elections all the way up to the President of United States are hotly contested.
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Grassroots voices are changing this country on a scale that was unheard of just a few years ago.
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From top to bottom of the ballot – we can change the face of Texas politics together.
Battleground Texas is a local effort with national implications.
Wendy Davis Wendy Davis ?@WendyDavisTexas
Great to have so many Texans in the Capitol this morning making their voices heard. Democracy in action!
ShelbyKnox ?@ShelbyKnox
No such thing as an "abortion industry," #txlege. There's a "medical industry" & repro health care is simply medical care.
Abbey Prentice ?@HereComesThePun
332 B.C. called, they want this guy and his idiotic sign back. #WhatADouche #standwithtxwomen pic.twitter.com/yO6EugbQfY
Victorian Prude ?@VictorianPrude
All these anti folks came from Ohio. Go back home, you haters.
NARAL Pro-Choice TX ?@naraltx 1m ago!
Hungry? Pizza in E2.812! Go grab a bite, then make room for other folks to grab pizza 
https://twitter.com/naraltx
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Austinite Katie Heim was one of many to testify before the committee.
Unlike the other testifiers, she read a poem she wrote, called "If My Vagina Was a Gun."
http://dailytexanonline.com/blogs/the-update/2013/07/08/liveblog-texas-senate-committee-hears-abortion-legislation
"If my vagina was a gun, you would stand for its rights,
You would ride on buses and fight all the fights.
If my vagina was a gun, you would treat it with care,
You wouldn't spill all its secrets because, well, why go there.
If my vaginas was a gun, you'd say what it holds is private
From cold dead hands we could pry, you surely would riot.
If my vagina was a gun, it's rights would all be protected,
no matter the body count or the children effected.
If my vagina was a gun, I could bypass security,
concealed carry laws would ensure I'd have impunity.
If my vagina was a gun, I wouldn't have to beg you,
I could hunt this great land and do all the things men do.
But my vagina is not a gun, it is a mightier thing,
With a voice that rings true making lawmakers ears ring.
Vaginas are not delicate, they are muscular and magic,
So stop messing with mine, with legislation that's tragic.
My vagina's here to demand from the source,
Listen to the voices of thousand or feel their full force."
Catholics for Choice ?@Catholic4Choice
Texas #Catholics in Austin and across the state oppose #SB1. #StandWithTXWomen pic.twitter.com/LLuAho4vsy
