into an adult daycare center. so it was literally right here down the street from where i grew up. if you are someone from brownsville, like my hometown who needed abortion care, you would have to drive about an hour, an hour and a half to get to the clinic. and that s if you have access to transportation. like if i wanted to get an abortion and i was an undocumented woman, i wouldn t have a place to go. or even me right now, as a young person, if i needed an abortion, i wouldn t be able to afford it. - so, i made a big orange sign and it said, god is pro-choice, because you know, the democrats that we have here in the valley don t really vouch for us as much as i think that they should because of, you know, catholicism. - you said partisanship, which i don t fall under. - no, you do not. - cause i m a democratic, pro-life legislator. you know that i do have an inner strength that supports this bill, and that strength is in the name
by these anti-choice laws. this used to be the planned parenthood, and so when the funding was cut, they turned the planned parenthood into an adult daycare center. so it was literally right here down the street from where i grew up. if you are someone from brownsville, like my hometown who needed abortion care, you would have to drive about an hour, an hour and a half to get to the clinic. and that s if you have access to transportation. like if i wanted to get an abortion and i was an undocumented woman, i wouldn t have a place to go. or even me right now, as a young person, if i needed an abortion, i wouldn t be able to afford it. - so, i made a big orange sign and it said, god is pro-choice, because you know, the democrats that we have here in the valley don t really vouch for us as much as i think that they should because of, you know, catholicism. - you said partisanship, which i don t fall under. - no, you do not. - cause i m a democratic,
by these anti-choice laws. this used to be the planned parenthood, and so when the funding was cut, they turned the planned parenthood into an adult daycare center. so it was literally right here down the street from where i grew up. if you are someone from brownsville, like my hometown who needed abortion care, you would have to drive about an hour, an hour and a half to get to the clinic. and that s if you have access to transportation. like if i wanted to get an abortion and i was an undocumented woman, i wouldn t have a place to go. or even me right now, as a young person, if i needed an abortion, i wouldn t be able to afford it. - so, i made a big orange sign and it said, god is pro-choice, because you know, the democrats that we have here in the valley don t really vouch for us as much as i think that they should because of, you know, catholicism. - you said partisanship, which i don t fall under. - no, you do not. - cause i m a democratic,
by these anti-choice laws. this used to be the planned parenthood, and so when the funding was cut, they turned the planned parenthood into an adult daycare center. so it was literally right here down the street from where i grew up. if you are someone from brownsville, like my hometown who needed abortion care, you would have to drive about an hour, an hour and a half to get to the clinic. and that s if you have access to transportation. like if i wanted to get an abortion and i was an undocumented woman, i wouldn t have a place to go. or even me right now, as a young person, if i needed an abortion, i wouldn t be able to afford it. - so, i made a big orange sign and it said, god is pro-choice, because you know, the democrats that we have here in the valley don t really vouch for us as much as i think that they should because of, you know, catholicism. - you said partisanship, which i don t fall under.
- you said partisanship, which i don t fall under. - no, you do not. - cause i m a democratic, pro-life legislator. you know that i do have an inner strength that supports this bill, and that strength is in the name of my faith as a roman catholic. - anti-choice people, you know, they say that they re being backed up by religion, but at the end of the day, you know, all they do is like damage people and hurt them and you know, make them feel less than, and, you know, shaming them for their decision. - and i urge everyone to go home and write their mamas a letter and thank them for being pro-life, or else they wouldn t be here today. - a lot of what i connected with wendy davis was that she has also gone through a lot of the stuff i, or people that i know have gone through. she was a young mother, she went to a community college and seeing somebody who used to go to a community college fighting for reproductive rights as a politician was something that was just like, so mind blowing to