Anyone watching Texas senator Wendy Davis filibuster the anti-abortion bill?

[MmeLindor]

You can watch here

She has to talk till midnight, so that is 13hours. Without a break, without sitting down.

[5madthings]

Actually the guy I am watching may be from earlier...not sure if I a, watching a live link...

[MardyBra]

Wow. Go Wendy.

hope you have a she-wee stashed away somewhere or at least better bladder control than me

[MalenkyRusskyDrakonchik]

Aw, what a lovely post scone. Go Wendy, and go MmeLindor for starting this thread.

[gallicgirl]

It's Mrs Smith goes to Washington

[MmeLindor]

Here are the rules

Filibusters are governed by the Senate rules and by precedents interpreting the rules.
Rule 3.02 prohibits eating or drinking in the Senate chamber.

Rule 4.01 requires a member of the Senate to stand at his or her desk to address the Senate. The member speaking may not sit, lean, or use a desk or chair in any way. Bathroom breaks are not allowed.

Rule 4.03, which governs the interruption of a member who is speaking, allows other senators to raise objections if a speaker does not confine his or her remarks to the issue under consideration or if his or her voice is inaudible.

[ThirdTimesABrokenFanjo]

She needs things to talk about (just seen this in the comments) send your stories to give her something to keep speaking on
services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/petition.aspx?X=mfnxb8Ng0l8%3D

[5madthings]

I was just talking g to dp about this, I had never rhear dof a filibuster bit he studied politics a tuni and knew what it was.

Its really interesting actually.

She so doing an amazing thing for the women of Texas.

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

Thanks, MRD and yes, thanks to MmeLindor.

[MmeLindor]

That is lovely, Scone. (and yes, of course it rhymes with gone!)

Am glad there is a lot of support for Wendy. My twitter and FB timelines are buzzing.

[LineRunner]

Third that needs a valid zip code to submit.

[edam]

Wow, she's amazing. Go Wendy!

[5madthings]

I have shared on fb, the personal stories she is reading out are heartbreaking, is anyone else close to tears?

Err can people Google zip codes...or would that not work?

[MmeLindor]

Yep, use a google ZIP code. I have done that before when I have used US websites.

Not sure if she needs more to read, but worth a shot

[SconeRhymesWithGone]

Wendy Davis

[MalenkyRusskyDrakonchik]

Ooh, I didn't think of that.

[therumoursaretrue]

Amazing! What a woman!

Suspect we may be in the same place MrsL it's a sad state of affairs

[5madthings]

So that would work, yay I just wasn't sure if it would be 'OK' don't want to encourage people to do something illegal, tho even if it wass I think this is a good enough cause for breaking the law.

[goodbyeyellowbrickroad]

77005 is a valid Texas zipcode. Am watching the news in Houston and this has been reported ever so briefly.

So glad to see s

[MalenkyRusskyDrakonchik]

It seems to work. I googled a place I've stayed in the US - if you used a hotel, no-one could possibly know you weren't there unless they checked hotel records, and you wouldn't be getting anyone into trouble by using 'their' address.

[CaptainJamesTKirk]

Someone please explain because I can't seem to find out... What is this anti-abortion bill? Anti-abortion full stop or anti-abortion after a certain time limit? If so what time limit? Thanks.

[MrsGeologist]

I hope she manages it. It's good to see someone fighting the good fight, although it's fucking shite that she even has to do it in the first place.

[goodbyeyellowbrickroad]

Oops - posted too soon!

So glad to see Wendy doing her thing. Hope she manages to stick it out. Implications of this are massive for the women of Texas.

[CaptainJamesTKirk]

Okay no probs, ignore me I've found it now.

[edam]

Who is the guy standing next to her now?

[5madthings]

Technically its for after twenty weeks but the legislation in full means that pretty much all of the places that currently provide abortion would be shut down so effectively Making it impossible to get abortion (its hard anyway) and there are no exceptions is in cases of rape or incest or health problems with fetus or mother.

Why would you want a Time limit on abortions anyway? Late them abortions are rare and always for good reason, as others have said 'as early as possible, as late as necessary'.