.@WendyDavisTexas continues to run away from her abortion record: “I am #prolife”

Wendy Davis' shoes
These shoes were made for runnin’ … away from your pro-abortion record? Photo via Dallas News.

As has been previously reported, feminista darling-turned candidate for Texas governor Wendy Davis is running away as fast as she can from her abortion record. Β Her “introduction” campaign video to the state of Texas last month didn’t mention the word abortion nor talk about the issue once, in spite of the fact that her rise to national prominence is based SOLELY on that one issue.

Yesterday in Brownsville, TX, the TX state senator took another giant leap away from her staunch abortion advocacy record by actually claiming that she – the one who tried to filibuster a bill that would make abortions illegal after 20 weeks – was pro-life. Β Via the Valley Morning StarΒ (bolded emphasis added by me):

But while in Brownville Tuesday, Davis revealed her campaign for governor isn’t based on her abortion filibuster and brightly colored shoes.

Her campaign stop at the University of Texas at Brownsville centered on a lesser-known filibuster of hers: one she conducted in 2011 in opposition to a budget that tried to cut $4 billion from public education.

Education, she said, was crucial to the fulfillment of what she called Texas’ promise.

β€œIf you work hard you can become anything you desire to be in a place like Texas,” she said. β€œThat promise was one that my state delivered to me when I was young, but the promise today really has been broken.”

Indeed, it has, ironically enough by pro-choice politicos like Wendy Davis who are perfectly ok with unborn children having the very opportunities she and her fellow Texans were given from the moment they were born away from them: The chance to be born and to have the opportunity to “become anything you desire to be.”

Continuing on:

Davis said her approach to job growth differs from the Republican plan just as her approach toward the goal of having zero abortions in Texas differs, characterizing herself as a reluctant participant in the abortion debate.

β€œThe battle over reproductive rights and women’s health care that was waged on June 25 was not a battle I chose,” she said. β€œWhen I believe women’s health is in danger, I’m going to stand and fight to protect that.”

[…]

β€œThis isn’t about protecting abortion. It’s about protecting women,” she said. β€œIt’s about trusting women to make good decisions for themselves and empowering them with the tools to do that.”

[…]

β€œ(I’m) a woman who wants desperately for others who are coming up in poverty to receive the same kind of partnership from the state that I once received so that they too can become a part of the success of Texas,” she said.

Davis suggested that her views on abortion access do not mean she does not care about life.

β€œI am pro-life,” she said, borrowing from the label anti-abortion activists assign themselves. β€œI care about the life of every child: every child that goes to bed hungry, every child that goes to bed without a proper education, every child that goes to bed without being able to be a part of the Texas dream, every woman and man who worry about their children’s future and their ability to provide for that future. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.”

Only after they are born, though – not before. And that’s the problem, Ms. Davis. The unborn are people worth fighting for, too.

Related: Β Wendy Davis sued her hometown newspaper (and Disney) for WHAT?

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