Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, who became a national political sensation by filibustering her state's tough new restrictions on abortion, discloses in her upcoming memoir that she had an abortion in the 1990s after discovering that the fetus had a severe brain abnormality.
In "Forgetting to be Afraid," Davis also writes about ending an earlier ectopic pregnancy, in which an embryo implants outside the uterus. Davis says she considered revealing the terminated pregnancies during her nearly 13-hour speech on the floor of the Texas Senate last summer — but decided against it, saying "such an unexpected and dramatically personal confession would overshadow the events of the day."
Saturday, September 6, 2014
AP On New Wendy Davis Memoir
The AP got an early copy of Wendy Davis's upcoming memoir and reports that she reveals she once had an abortion--for good reason, but one still wonder if it will hurt her in current race for governor.
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Do we really still have to say "for good reason"? Can't we get to "because that is her right"?
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