i think it has exposed their hypocrisy, because they really can t defend this bill based on improving women s health care. and in fact, all objective medical scientists and doctors who have weighed in on this say this will endanger women s health. it will put women in the back alley that she once was in. it won t decrease the demand. and what is amazing about this movement, which is purported to do this, we are making sure we truly do reduce unintended pregnancies, and therefore, a need for a woman to make this difficult decision. those things are met with absolute opposition. so adding women s health services, making sure that we re giving age-appropriate sex education in our schools, those are off the table. and in fact, in 2011, this legislature kicked about 160,000 women, this republican-controlled legislature, off of family planning services in texas. and we re asking right now what happened as a consequence of that? what happened to the demand for abortion services?
mov movement, which is purported to do this, we are making sure we truly do reduce unintended pregnancies, and therefore, a need for a woman to make this difficult decision. those things are met with absolute opposition. so adding women s health services, making sure that we re giving age-appropriate sex education in our schools, those are off the table. and in fact, in 2011, this legislature kicked about 160,000 women, this republican-controlled legislature, off of family planning services in texas. and we re asking right now what happened as a consequence of that? what happened to the demand for abortion services? what happened to the demand for medicaid births and the costs of medicaid births in the state of texas? none of it makes sense with what purportedly is the agenda of this republican majority.
that your filibuster has brought to austin. it seems maybe the most important consequence has brought this far, you making your republican colleagues explain themselves, make them debate these measures, put the argument out there and having it tested. do you feel like the open debate has really aired out the argument? i think it has helped a lot. i think it has exposed their hypocrisy, because they really can t defend this bill based on improving women s health care. and in fact, all objective medical scientists and doctors who have weighed in on this say this will endanger women s health. it will put women in the back alley that she once was in. it won t decrease the demand. and what is amazing about this movement, which is purported to do this, we are making sure we truly do reduce unintended pregnancies, and therefore, a need for a woman to make this difficult decision. those things are met with absolute opposition.