fetal anomaly exception, it s still a lot of red tape, and we were so far along. - being told that you don t really have any control over how your baby is going to die is devastating and self-defeating. i chose to have a baby and to bring her into this world. i should be allowed to make the very personal, very private, and very painful decision as to how she leaves it, guided by the best interest of my child and my family. if a 20-week ban had been in place four years ago, then i wouldn t have been able to make this choice. i would hate to see other families denied the right to choose what is best for them. these decision are hard enough without placing extra limits on them. - a senator is telling the world about my daughter
or did the president hear me and refuse to recognize? - senator - i couldn t get recognized. i was jumping up and down. i was screaming, mr. president. i was trying all i could and they kept recognizing my republican male colleagues. finally, when i was recognized, what came outta my mouth was totally unrehearsed, it was out of frustration. at what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over the male colleagues in the room? [audience cheering] - the women in that gallery roared. [audience cheering] that was the question. why aren t our voices being heard? [audience cheering] they were being ignored in an attempt to rush so that the vote could be taken. [audience cheering]
and speaking on behalf of my district, one of my fellow senators, a male, older republican. including those that we ve been discussing today - senator, i m sorry. you know i have a hearing problem, and i m only getting about half of what you re saying. - i m sorry, i will speak up. - i have trouble, i m sorry, with women s voices and i m just not getting it. - and it was just such a breathtakingly honest, but also symbolic reflection of what it was like to be in the texas senate. - i know you re new to the legislature, but the fiscal impact on the bill, that is determined if there s a cost to the state. - believe it or not, i understand that a fiscal impact is based on whether there is a cost to the state. in texas, it is absolutely the case that the diversity of our communities are not reflected
- the secretary will call the roll. [audience cheering] - deuell, jonathan, ellis, estes. - we start hearing like in the hallways like this, like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. - wendy, wendy, wendy, wendy, wendy, wendy, wendy. it s like yelling and clapping. and you know, the whole interior of the capitol is like granite and marble. it s only, reflecty, kind of auditory services. there s not a cushion in the whole place. - i had never felt the building shake, the vibration. this is a granite building. - wendy, wendy, wendy, wendy, wendy. - i remember hearing the cheering and kind of realizing what they re doing. they re keeping them from voting. - stop the vote, stop the vote, stop the vote, stop the vote, stop the vote, stop the vote.
you know, for some unknown reason. - i d like to raise a point of order that senator davis has violated rule 4.01 when she had senator ellis assist her by putting a back brace on during a pause a moment ago. - that the republican leadership decided that they wanted to silence her, that they were going to do anything to stop her from filibustering, even calling bogus points of order. - this was not in keeping with the tradition of the texas senate. no senator had ever, ever gone through that before. - the point of order is sustained. [gavel bangs] [crowd yelling] - bullshit! [crowd yelling]