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?
he does weekly radio shows. he s taken a lot of questions. he s not a guy who previously has hidden behind people around him. the repeated no comments on this, and no explanations on this, i have also found surprising in departure from his previous behavior. there are these ongoing investigations. a federal investigation and a state investigation. is there a case to be made that he shouldn t do anything and maybe he shouldn t comment at all until those investigations are resolved? rachel, i would say those vases won t be resolved until the case is tried in front of the jury, if he s indicted, and i m not assuming he will be. frankly, i hope he won t be. he has an obligation to the citizens now to explain what s happened. i mean, all of these items, all of these stories coming out, all of us as public officials have to come forward and show we re honest, that we re fair. and when these stories come out and when they re not denied, when they re not rebutted, that frankly casts a shadow
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.
a federal investigation and a state investigation. is there a case to be made that he shouldn t do anything and maybe he shouldn t comment at all until those investigations are resolved? rachel, i would say those vases won t be resolved until the case is tried in front of the jury, if he s indicted, and i m not assuming he will be. frankly, i hope he won t be. he has an obligation to the citizens now to explain what s happened. i mean, all of these items, all of these stories coming out, all of us as public officials have to come forward and show we re honest, that we re fair. and when these stories come out and when they re not denied, when they re not rebutted, that frankly casts a shadow over all of us in the general assembly and most of us like myself, we re part timers. this is not our profession. we do this because we believe in it. and separate and apart from the governor s legal status, he has an obligation to tell the citizens that he s making decisions that are in the best
but so many people blooding into the legislature, the attention 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