Abortion foes push federal action as Texas Republicans say issue best left to the states
That bill provides an exception to save the life of a mother facing physical, but not psychological or emotional, illness., a proposal that has been described as a total ban on abortion but which would raise additional legal questions.
“I just don’t think that a raped woman should be forced to and compelled for nine months to have the child when through no fault of her own she was impregnated,” Fallon said.“So nothing will change in Kansas,” Fallon said. “Many of the states like New York, Illinois, California, you know, the Democrats control, nothing will change. In Texas things are going to change, but that’s the will of the voters.
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth, is the only Republican in the Texas House delegation who has not co-sponsored at least one of the three big Republican abortion ban proposals this session.for describing herself as a “pro-choice Republican” in a 2007 TV interview, but her votes for federal abortion restrictions in more recent years have earned her the support of anti-abortion groups.
If Republicans retake the House, Granger is likely to be the next chair of the Appropriations Committee, a position from which she can block Democrats’ efforts to eliminate the provision.
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