26 Jun 2013 6:19 pm
Texas Lawmaker Calls Wendy Davis A Terrorist For Blocking Anti-Abortion BillLate last night, a Republican lawmaker compared Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis {D} and the crowd of her supporters to terrorists. Davis gained national attention and admirers overnight for launching an epic 13-hour filibuster that successfully blocked a restrictive abortion bill from becoming law. Once Republicans failed to pass SB 5, an omnibus bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks and shut down most of the states abortion clinics, Rep. Bill Zedler {R} tweeted:In addition to voting for the 20 week abortion ban in the Texas House, Zedler's record includes requiring women to undergo an ultrasound and report their education history before being able to have an abortion.Meanwhile, Lt. Gov David Dewhurst described the crowd that cheered Davis on as "an unruly mob, using Occupy Wall Street tactics" that "disrupted the Senate from protecting unborn babies." For the record, this is what the protests in the capitol building looked like:It's obvious that Republicans hate democracy. They call it terrorism.Wendy Davis had every right to filibuster that bill.And she had the courage to stand and speak for 11 hours.She didn't filibuster by just quietly objecting, like the cowards in the U.S. Senate do.