Texans can sleep easier tonight due to an “emergency” piece of legislation that has been approved by the Senate State Affairs Committee. A pregnant woman will be required to have a doctor perform a sonogram that she will have to see and listen to before she can get an abortion.
The grand irony of the situation is that there are many more urgent issues in Texas. This is a wedge issue and a smoke screen designed to further divide Democrats and Republicans. Republicans want less government unless you have a womb and then they want to control what women can do with their bodies. The further irony is that according to a report from the nonprofit Texans Care for Children compared the average American child to children living or about to be born in Texas. Texas children are 93 percent more likely not to have health care, are more prone to drop out of school and are 83 percent more likely to have a mother who has no health insurance with little to zero prenatal care. The nonprofit Every Child Matters Education Fund ranked Texas as having the highest rates of child fatalities from abuse or neglect.
These atrocious numbers are much more of an emergency for Texans.
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