Allow abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. It takes all the state level protections and abolishes them. Bottom, line it doesnt codify roe, mr. Chairman, becomes one of the most extreme laws anywhere in the world. Colorado, new jersey, new mexico, oregon, vermont are passing laws with absolutely no restrictions. The democratic bill is in the same ilk with taxpayer funding. Lets take a look and see how that would put us as a nation regarding the rest of the world. As you see behind me, 47 of 50 European Union nations limit abortion at 15 weeks or below. France is at 14 weeks. China, north korea, iran and a few other nations allow abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. Your bill would put us in that category. 14 week limitations, france, belgium, germany, spain. 12 weeks, denmark and norway. My proposal is having a National Minimum standard of 15 weeks for exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother, pregnancies. Why do we do this . By 15 weeks, and unborn child has te
Allow abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. It takes all the state level protections and abolishes them. Bottom, line it doesnt codify roe, mr. Chairman, becomes one of the most extreme laws anywhere in the world. Colorado, new jersey, new mexico, oregon, vermont are passing laws with absolutely no restrictions. The democratic bill is in the same ilk with taxpayer funding. Lets take a look and see how that would put us as a nation regarding the rest of the world. As you see behind me, 47 of 50 European Union nations limit abortion at 15 weeks or below. France is at 14 weeks. China, north korea, iran and a few other nations allow abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. Your bill would put us in that category. 14 week limitations, france, belgium, germany, spain. 12 weeks, denmark and norway. My proposal is having a National Minimum standard of 15 weeks for exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother, pregnancies. Why do we do this . By 15 weeks, and unborn child has te
Allow abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. It takes all the state level protections and abolishes them. Bottom, line it doesnt codify roe, mr. Chairman, becomes one of the most extreme laws anywhere in the world. Colorado, new jersey, new mexico, oregon, vermont are passing laws with absolutely no restrictions. The democratic bill is in the same ilk with taxpayer funding. Lets take a look and see how that would put us as a nation regarding the rest of the world. As you see behind me, 47 of 50 European Union nations limit abortion at 15 weeks or below. France is at 14 weeks. China, north korea, iran and a few other nations allow abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. Your bill would put us in that category. 14 week limitations, france, belgium, germany, spain. 12 weeks, denmark and norway. My proposal is having a National Minimum standard of 15 weeks for exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother, pregnancies. Why do we do this . By 15 weeks, and unborn child has te
Megan kimball is my name. The way i should say this first is gilbert garcia. Im an opinion writer and columnist with the san antonio expressnews, but thats not important. Important here is our author, megan kimball. Shes an austin based investigative journalist, author of the 2015 book unprocessed. Shes a former executive editor of the Texas Observer. She writes about housing and urban development for texas monthly, the New York Times guardian and, bloomberg, citylab. Her latest book, which came out a few days ago, is called city limits inequality and the future americas highways. And it examines the toll that ever expanding urban highways have taken on our communities. And it does so through the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. Thank you, gilbert. Thank you all for being here. Its really a delight now, megan, you as you point out the book, you were born in austin, you grew up in Southern California, and california.
Megan kimball is my name. The way i should say this first is gilbert garcia. Im an opinion writer and columnist with the san antonio expressnews, but thats not important. Important here is our author, megan kimball. Shes an austin based investigative journalist, author of the 2015 book unprocessed. Shes a former executive editor of the Texas Observer. She writes about housing and urban development for texas monthly, the New York Times guardian and, bloomberg, citylab. Her latest book, which came out a few days ago, is called city limits inequality and the future americas highways. And it examines the toll that ever expanding urban highways have taken on our communities. And it does so through the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. Thank you, gilbert. Thank you all for being here. Its really a delight now, megan, you as you point out the book, you were born in austin, you grew up in Southern California, and california.