The Texas House of Representatives passed strict abortion restrictions including a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The bill passed 98-49 but will need a second, final vote from the house before it can head to the State Senate. The bill is the same one that the House had sent to the Senate during a previous special session but was killed by a Democratic Senator’s filibuster and protesters who disrupted the Senate’s session and ability to vote on the bill. Continue reading
An abortion bill that would limit abortion to before 20 weeks of pregnancy advanced in the Texas legislature despite attempts by Democrats to attach amendments to weaken the law. Continue reading
Pro-abortion protesters in Texas yelled “hail Satan” during a rally inside the state capitol.
The protesters were in the capitol angered that Texas Governor Rick Perry called a special session to essentially pass an abortion bill that would require all clinics that perform abortions to have a doctor on staff with admitting privileges at a local hospital. Continue reading
The Texas state legislature began its second special session by reviving a bill to protect babies from he horror of abortion.
Republican governor Rick Perry called the special session after protesters disrupted the Texas Senate in the waning hours of their first special session and kept them from being able to vote before midnight. Continue reading
Democrat Texas Senator Wendy Davis tried to stop a vote on a Texas abortion law that passed the House by a large margin and seemed to fail when 15 minutes before midnight she was found to have violated the rules of a filibuster.
But pro-abortion advocates then screamed and yelled for half an hour to keep the Texas Senate from being able to carry out their duties as elected officials causing the bill to die because it was not voted on before the midnight deadline. Continue reading
Cheerleaders at a Texas school were stunned to learn that the school board is going to appeal a judge’s decision permitting Bible verses to be used on football banners.
“We think the attorneys on the other side are reading into the court’s decision rights that just aren’t there,” Tom Brandt, attorney for the school district, told the Beaumont Enterprise. Continue reading
A tornado ripped through Granbury, Texas Wednesday night killing six people and putting at least 100 people in the hospital.
Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds said that the death toll could rise as emergency management searches for 14 missing people. Continue reading
Authorities searched for survivors Thursday after a powerful storm system that spawned multiple tornadoes tore through two North Texas neighborhoods, killing at least six adults. Continue reading
West, Texas Mayor Tommy Muska said that 35 to 40 people are dead from the massive explosion that leveled a quarter of the town.
Muska said he arrived at the estimated death toll based on the number of people who have not been identified by local officials. Among the missing and believed dead are six firefighters and four emergency medical technicians. Continue reading
A fire and chemical explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant in a small town north of Waco, Texas, killed an estimated five to 15 people, sent at least 180 to hospitals, flattened buildings and prompted widespread evacuations. Continue reading
