More On Choice & The 80th Legislature

Yesterday, I pointed your attention to a comment from a fellow blogger who writes Talk To Action on Frank Corte’s anti-choice legislation.

Being strongly pro-choice, I love finding other bloggers who are writing on this topic here in Texas, and Movi from Talk to Action has done a great job in a new post over there (and check out all the linkage she’s got in it, too!):

Joined this year by Houston’s own Rush Limbaugh, new state senator Dan Patrick, they remain hell-bent on exerting even greater control over the bodies of Texas women. But only because Jesus likes it that way.

Rep. Frank Corte — “big, fat liar,” Texas Christian Coalition “Friend of the Family,” and author of the 2003 “Woman’s Right to Know Act” that requires Texas physicians to lie to women about the mythical link between abortion and breast cancer that exists only in the fervid imaginations of folks like him — is making an early start on the 2007 session.

We have come to expect no less from this pet legislator of the Christian Coalition, the American Family Association of Texas, the Texas Eagle Forum, Texas Right to Life, religious right “sugardaddy” Jim Leininger and apocalypse-monger John Hagee.

Per his usual custom, Corte sent an aide rushing to the Capitol at 5:00 AM to pre-file bills that are sending Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Texas into full activism mode.

The bill that set the NARAL email platform humming is HB 23, a piece of legislation so asinine that it should embarrass even Frank “The Fetus” Corte, whose attempt to provide legal cover for pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control pills failed in 2005. HB 23 would require pharmacies that sell Plan B — now readily available to adults over the counter — to obtain more personal information from purchasers than is legally mandated for dispensing prescription drugs.

Click through some of those links above, because it’s great stuff.

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