- i knew i had to prepare for the fact that i wouldn t be able to take a bathroom break. so that morning, i got up pretty early and a woman gynecologist inserted a catheter, and i found myself with the challenge of several feet of tubing that i had to figure out how to wrap around my leg. quite a moment of anxiousness, as you can imagine, right before the filibuster began. - senator davis, is it still your intention to filibuster? - yes. mr. president, i - you re recognized. - and i intend to speak for an extended period of time on the bill. thank you very much. wayfair s cyber monday sale is here! save on entertainment must-haves up to 40% off. mattresses & bedding up to 70% off. and fireplaces & heating up to 50% off. search, shop, and
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 me and, you know, fighting alongside leticia van de putte, a woman of color who s also mexican.
- let s hear from wendy davis now. - and we will endure until our efforts realize the state that we envision. [audience cheering] makes me cry all over again. [chuckles] and i don t begrudge greg abbott his win whatsoever, but there were a couple of levels that were deeply, deeply disappointing. one was we continued to see an outright assault on women s reproductive rights. no two dreams are the same. but there is one van equipped to handle them all. for over 120 years, mercedes-benz vans have
you find a lump, every clinic you call, there s a two to three month waiting period at best. so i m outside of greg abbott s mansion today, and i will be every day until he vetoes reduced access to early breast and cervical cancer screenings here in texas. i stood outside of governor greg abbott s mansion for 17 days. hey, everyone. day two outside of the governor s mansion here, and we ve got some community supporters out here helping me try to convince greg abbott to veto reduced it started gaining traction on twitter, but also locally. [upbeat music] and then it turned into #standwithsadie, and so, yeah, it just became a trending hashtag. i started getting calls from the national office saying, hey, sadie, yahoo wants to talk about this, or, hey, sadie, cosmo wants to talk about this. and i was just like. [upbeat music] i saw two people walking up and i was just like, that lady kinda looks like wendy davis.
i think it s perfectly reasonable to talk about it in the context of what women in texas today will face if this provision goes in place. - thank you, senator davis. [dramatic music] senator campbell, your point of order is well taken and is sustained. [gavel bangs] the chair recognizes senator hegar. [crowd yells] - they were so upset. they understood that the rules were being bent and broken and twisted in order to bring the filibuster to an end. [crowd yells] - senator watson, can you hear me? [crowd booing] [crowd yells] state your inquiry. - i move that the ruling of the chair be overruled