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That's a good crackpot Texas tale but here's an even better one.

TX Republican Lawmaker Wants Women To Carry Deceased Fetuses - To Full Term

Last week, even some Republicans found a recent amendment proposed by a Texas fellow party member deplorable. Andrea Grimes, with RH Reality, reports:.

Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler) put forward an amendment that would make it illegal to terminate a pregnancy after 20 weeks, even if a fetus “has a severe and irreversible abnormality,” effectively forcing families with wanted, but unsustainable pregnancies to carry to term at the behest of the state and against the advice of their doctors or their own wishes.

What would cause a lawmaker to want the government to inflict more emotional pain onto an already grieving family, in addition to adding high health risks to the mother?

Schaefer said that suffering is “part of the human condition, since sin entered the world.”

Oh, for fucksake! Where do these people come from? More importantly, how do they get into office?

Democratic Representative, Jessica Farrar of Houston, is quoted as saying this is the most misogynistic piece of legislature she's seen in her 21 years in the House. Matt Schaefer’s amendment actually passed, but he removed it for full committee review after Trey Martinez Fischer, the House Democrat from San Antonio filed a legislative point of order.

The late author, humorist and commentator, Molly Ivans, sums up late term abortion, perfectly, in an excellent video. Here is an excerpt.

"I almost get the impression that somebody thinks women don't have no moral sense at all. No woman who is seven months pregnant, ever waddles past an abortion clinic and says, 'Darn, I knew there was something I've been meaning to get around to.' This is ridiculous. You have those late-term abortions, because either the mother is going to die, the child is going to die, or both are going to die."

There seems to be a nonstop effort by Republican lawmakers to control women/their bodies - often in the name of God. Thankfully, there are also nonstop efforts by a much larger voice in this country - the people who refuse to let women go back to illegal, back alley, abortion butchery. This battle will most likely not end in our lifetimes, or in our children's lifetimes. But we will stay unified, and we will never give up.

Here are some of the pro-choice organizations and social media groups to visit/support:

Planned Parenthood
Emily's List
NARAL/Pro-Choice America
NOW
NAF/National Abortion Federation
UniteWomen.org
Abortion.com
Abigail Adams Brigade
Fight Laws Against Women
Pro-Choice Liberals

You can share your thoughts with this GOP extremist on his Facebook page, where he is seen buddying up with other women-haters like former Republican Governor Rick Perry and Republican Senator Ted Cruz. One down - two to go.

The Guttmacher Institute is an excellent source of current reproductive rights legislation.

Special thanks to Anne Burks.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/03/1381655/-TX-Republican-Lawmaker-Wants-Pregnant-Women-To-Carry-Deceased-Fetuses-Full-Term