Learn From Your Own Story - What A Concept!

On Tuesday, Texas state Senator Wendy Davis filibustered S.B.5, a bill which would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, limit the prescription of medication-induced abortions, and require first-trimester abortion clinics to be regulated as ambulatory surgical centers, even if they don't offer surgical procedures.

Opponents of the law argue that the bill would close 37 out of the 42 abortion clinics in the state.

Senator Davis is being heralded as a hero by abortion proponents and those who believe that ending a pregnancy at any time for any reason should be a woman’s choice.  She spoke for 11 hours without a break of any kind as abortion rights supporters gathered in the spectator gallery. 

The filibuster was interrupted near midnight by Republicans citing procedural error and a vote was taken.  The oral vote, however, was drowned out by the shouting of the spectators and the bill was finally killed.

Governor Rick Perry, who has vowed to have the bill proposed again on July 1^st, made some remarks yesterday at the National Right To Life convention.  In his remarks he couldn’t help but make a point at Davis’ expense.

"Even the woman who filibustered the Senate the other day was born into difficult circumstances.  She was the daughter of a single woman, she was a teenage mother herself.  She managed to eventually graduate from Harvard Law School and serve in the Texas senate," Perry said Thursday in a speech to the National Right to Life Convention.  "It is just unfortunate that she hasn’t learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance to realize its full potential and that every life matters."

Critics (and Senator Davis) were quick to attack Perry for his words, saying he was “taking shots at a teenage, single mother.”  Davis said it's "not the governor's place" to comment about her.  But that’s not the case at all.  They were so busy attacking Perry that they were blind to (or ignored) his message.  Perry was saying that Ms. Davis was born into a bad situation - the same caliber of which she was speaking during her filibuster, and not only did she survive, she excelled.  He was complimenting her accomplishments after having had a difficult situation as a child.  I don’t, however, expect his critics to accept or even understand that because of his last sentence.

I would say this – if the truth stings a little maybe Ms. Davis, as Governor Perry insinuated, should take a closer look at herself and think about what might be today had her own mother adopted her views.