What a crazy, and sometimes childish, thread.
I don't think we even know for sure that the op was about the abortion bill. I thought it was about DOMA and Prop 8. However, looking back, I am now guessing it was both.
I responded b/c I think the SCOTUS did well today. But let us go to abortion....and since I was called out....I will respond.
I am liberal. I am a democrat. I guarantee you that I am not an idiot. That said, I have great sympathy for the pro life crowd. Just like the SC said yesterday in the VRA decision, things have changed. Medical technology has changed and the rules regarding abortion need to change with them. Yes, that is just common sense. So, Texas wants to change the rule to 20 weeks...fine....I am ok with that. However, you still have a problem....20 weeks and no days is OK, but 20 weeks and one day is murder. I hate having a hard line like that, but I guess we have no choice.
However, I am actually happy that the new law didn't go through. I don't like such an important and divisive issue like this coming to vote on the last day of a special session called for a different issue. And, I really don't like the other provision, in the name of safety, which would create only five legal abortion clinics in Texas. That is crazy. Even if you are pro life, you have to realize the the SC says abortion is legal. Change the number of weeks and that is OK by me. Make it so that many young woman in Texas have no opportunity to get an abortion and I call ********.