I am Wendy Davis's Worst Nightmare

I am Wendy Davis’s worst nightmare.  On the surface of things, I should be one of her, “sure” votes.  While certainly no Democrat, I am a feminist of the first water.  Being a generation older than Ms. Davis, I was fighting her battles when she was in training pants.  Here is what she needs to know, but doesn’t.

I marched for Civil Rights.  I fought for the Equal Rights Amendment.  I was the first teacher in my district to teach the full term of a pregnancy and did so under considerable duress; the first to seek a principal’s certification; the first to act as picket captain during a teachers’ strike.  I have beaten my head against one glass ceiling after another for my whole life. I did NOT do all of this so this self-serving, opportunistic woman could launch a run for office by enabling the Kermit Gosnell’s of this world and killing viable babies in the womb!

While Ms. Davis and her minions would love to paint me as some, “Pro-Life” nut (as opposed to a Pro-abortion nut, I guess) they would, again, be making a mistake.  I accept Roe v. Wade as settled law.  I do think it stinks.  Every abortion is a testament to the failure of the feminist movement.  Every unwanted conception means a woman was forced, coerced, brow-beaten or duped into unprotected sex.  Our women and our laws should be stronger.

But I also believe that while a woman has the right to have an abortion, there is a time in every pregnancy when a fetus has earned the right to be born.  A woman has the first five months of her pregnancy to decide what to do, after that she is committed to delivering the child she conceived, after which she is welcome to give it up to any welcoming home.  

Wendy Davis is earning political capital by selling wholesale abortions, quick, fast, and unsupervised.  She either knows nothing of Kermit Gosnell’s filthy, unregulated, uninspected abortion clinics, or she doesn’t care. 

Ms. Davis represents the Forth Worth area in the Texas state senate.  She is a Democrat that staged her kick-off for governor with an 11 hour filibuster on the Senate floor last summer to block Senate Bill 5.  The bill, which was passed in special session a couple of weeks after the filibuster, has three major parts.  It bans abortions after the 20^th week of pregnancy; requires abortion clinics to meet the same standards for cleanliness and preparedness as other state surgical centers; and requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. 

What is wrong with having an invasive, hemorrhagic procedure, with abundant opportunity for infection, done in a surgical center?  The pro-abortionists insist this requirement places an undue burden on women. 

Really?

The state of Texas performed at least 150,000 cataract surgeries last year.  In contrast there were only about 90,000 abortions.  Both are out patient procedures that take about as long.  Yet cataract surgery is done in a licensed surgical center and no one complains about it.  In fact, they expect it.  Why doesn’t a woman deserve the same clinical and sanitary standards as cataract patients?  Ms. Davis doesn’t complain that such requirements create an undue burden on retirees.  Nor will she; that could cost her votes.    

Ms. Davis would rather have the theater of rabid pro-abortionists than take the tougher road to really advocate for the protection of women.  I have seen this kind of obsequious posturing before.  It is always the approach of politicians who want the title, but not the job. 

She will never get my vote, because I keep the faith.